Hello! On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:55:06 +0200, Wouter Cloetens wrote: > Package: xkb-data > Version: 0.8-13 [...] > After an unstable update, I got an error dialogue box at Gnome > startup regarding the keyboard.
I think I was bitten by this bug. After a reboot, Emacs doesn't recognize anymore the Alt key as Meta. FWIW, the bug is present also in version 0.8-12exp4. The xmodmap output changes from (0.8-12): ===== xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_L (0x7d), Meta_L (0x9c) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 Super_L (0x7f), Hyper_L (0x80) mod5 Mode_switch (0x5d), ISO_Level3_Shift (0x71), ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c) ===== to (0.8-13): ===== xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e) lock Caps_Lock (0x42) control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d) mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71) mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d) mod3 mod4 mod5 Scroll_Lock (0x4e) ===== Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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