alt key on Fedora not working

alt key on Fedora not working

[Jai Dayal]

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On fedora 16 xfce, 64-bit, the alt key no longer works as it's supposed to
for emacs (Meta key). I have to use escape instead. Any idea what's
happened and how I should fix it?

emacs version is 23.2.1

Thanks a lot!
Jai

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Re: alt key on Fedora not working

[suvayu ali]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 02:29, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> On fedora 16 xfce, 64-bit, the alt key no longer works as it's supposed to
> for emacs (Meta key). I have to use escape instead. Any idea what's happened
> and how I should fix it?
>
> emacs version is 23.2.1
>

Are you using emacs in the terminal (emacs -nw)? There was a bug in
vte which caused Alt keys to be neglected for all gtk based terminal
emulators with the latest version of gtk. Several distros were
affected (e.g. Debian). If my description matches your problem, see
comment 20 on this bug report
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792>.

> Thanks a lot!
> Jai

Hope this helps.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: alt key on Fedora not working

[Jai Dayal]

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I should have been more clear: yes, I am using emacs -nw  when ssh-ed into
the servers.

However, on my local machine, there is a graphical emacs (23.2.1) and when
I do alt-x, it works as expected (M-x)

So the problem only happens over ssh connections

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:06 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 02:29, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On fedora 16 xfce, 64-bit, the alt key no longer works as it's supposed
> to
> > for emacs (Meta key). I have to use escape instead. Any idea what's
> happened
> > and how I should fix it?
> >
> > emacs version is 23.2.1
> >
>
> Are you using emacs in the terminal (emacs -nw)? There was a bug in
> vte which caused Alt keys to be neglected for all gtk based terminal
> emulators with the latest version of gtk. Several distros were
> affected (e.g. Debian). If my description matches your problem, see
> comment 20 on this bug report
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792>.
>
> > Thanks a lot!
> > Jai
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>

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Re: alt key on Fedora not working

[suvayu ali]

Hello Jai,

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 16:18, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should have been more clear: yes, I am using emacs -nw  when ssh-ed into
> the servers.
>
> However, on my local machine, there is a graphical emacs (23.2.1) and when I
> do alt-x, it works as expected (M-x)
>
> So the problem only happens over ssh connections
>

As I said, its a vte bug. Look at the bugzilla link I provided.

> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:06 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Are you using emacs in the terminal (emacs -nw)? There was a bug in
>> vte which caused Alt keys to be neglected for all gtk based terminal
>> emulators with the latest version of gtk. Several distros were
>> affected (e.g. Debian). If my description matches your problem, see
>> comment 20 on this bug report
>> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792>.

   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Look at this link.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: alt key on Fedora not working

[Jai Dayal]

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I see.  this seems to be the problem I'm having, and the last post mentions
XFCE.

It seems that I just have to wait for a fix to be released?

Jai

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Jai,
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 16:18, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I should have been more clear: yes, I am using emacs -nw  when ssh-ed
> into
> > the servers.
> >
> > However, on my local machine, there is a graphical emacs (23.2.1) and
> when I
> > do alt-x, it works as expected (M-x)
> >
> > So the problem only happens over ssh connections
> >
>
> As I said, its a vte bug. Look at the bugzilla link I provided.
>
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:06 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Are you using emacs in the terminal (emacs -nw)? There was a bug in
> >> vte which caused Alt keys to be neglected for all gtk based terminal
> >> emulators with the latest version of gtk. Several distros were
> >> affected (e.g. Debian). If my description matches your problem, see
> >> comment 20 on this bug report
> >> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792>.
>
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Look at this link.
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>

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Re: alt key on Fedora not working

[suvayu ali]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 18:47, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see.  this seems to be the problem I'm having, and the last post mentions
> XFCE.
>
> It seems that I just have to wait for a fix to be released?

I gave all the information in my first post. Look at comment 20. It
*has* the fix.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: alt key on Fedora not working

[Jai Dayal]

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Installing the RPM worked.  Good find.  Thank you.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:50 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 18:47, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I see.  this seems to be the problem I'm having, and the last post
> mentions
> > XFCE.
> >
> > It seems that I just have to wait for a fix to be released?
>
> I gave all the information in my first post. Look at comment 20. It
> *has* the fix.
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>

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Re: alt key on Fedora not working

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.12.2011 um 02:29 schrieb Jai Dayal:

> On fedora 16 xfce, 64-bit, the alt key no longer works as it's supposed to
> for emacs (Meta key). I have to use escape instead. Any idea what's
> happened and how I should fix it?

With xmodmap and xev you can investigate some settings valid for X11 and how they work You can also set the X server's behaviour. (GNU Emacs, when launched as an X client, does not read key presses and releases but receives key events from the X server – and these are already a bit translated from what your fingers perform.)

--
Greetings

  Pete

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