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Subject: Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch)
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:00:08 +0200
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>>> The recent XFree86 recently broke the meta key for Emacs.
>>> Some debian Xkb specialist worked on the problem and issued a patch. 
>>> It has
>>> been tested and we need to apply it before Debian sarge is release.
>>
>> Are you saying that all releases of Emacs, including 21.3, will
>> not run correctly on current XFree86 ?
>>
>> If that's true, we could be forced to to issue a 21.4 bug fix release
>> (based on 21.3) real soon !?
>
> I run xorg 6.8.1 and don't see any problems.

Me too.  But it works only because Emacs does not find a Meta key and
then uses the Alt key as Meta.  Thus you can't have both a Meta and an 
Alt.

There is no difference between 21.3 and CVS for this problem.

	Jan D.