From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: super and hyper keys acting funny in emacs Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:35:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371915381 28534 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2013 15:36:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:36:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 22 17:36:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UqPrR-0003Ha-6Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:36:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37741 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UqPrQ-0002YA-Lt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UqPrH-0002XE-Hm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:36:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UqPrG-000593-Nf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40986) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UqPrG-00058z-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UqPrD-00035w-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:36:07 +0200 Original-Received: from 76-10-154-64.dsl.teksavvy.com ([76.10.154.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:36:07 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 76-10-154-64.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:36:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76-10-154-64.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jvWoLmYK+OCm81mGuCRU0Q83+M4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91668 Archived-At: > state 0x40, keycode 66 (keysym 0xffed, Hyper_L), same_screen YES, [...] > state 0x40, keycode 115 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES, Notice how the "state" is the same: both your Hyper_L and Super_L keys are assigned to the same modifier (presumably "Hyper"). Take a look at the output of "xmodmap". Yes, X11 has an additional level of mapping from what you expect: the name of the key does not in itself determine if it's a modifier and which modifier it is. Instead, there's an additional mapping from keys to modifiers. Stefan