Hi, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> (19/01/2011): > Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA <leandro.du...@camara.gov.br> > (19/01/2011): > > Gnome does say I have a 104 keys keyboard with the USA International > > (with dead keys) layout. It seems to know nothing of the options. > > looks like the infamous gdm3 bug: > http://bugs.debian.org/590534 > > > Here is a Emacs shell log. Unconfigured keyboard, after booting and > > logging in, Alt key gives Meta and logo key gives Super in GNU Emacs > > 23: > > > > leandro@corel-276906-deb:~$ setxkbmap -print > > xkb_keymap { > > xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)" }; > > xkb_types { include "complete" }; > > xkb_compat { include "complete" }; > > xkb_symbols { include "pc+us(intl)+inet(evdev)" }; > > xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc104)" }; > > See? No options at all. > > > Until this point, no compose or non-break spaces. Then, I did my > > setxkbmap to set these options. This works. > > Which seems to confirm my feeling. > > You may want to run: > X :42 & sleep 5 ; DISPLAY=:42 xterm > > and try setxkbmap -print there to confirm.
can you confirm I got it right, please? > > Sawfish does recognise Alt and Meta as expected now, but Emacs > > behaves strangely. It interprets Alt as Meta, and Meta as Super. > > As it is, I cannot even A- or M-Tab out of Emacs. At this point, if > > I switch to a virtual console and back again, I get back to square > > one, setxkbmap for compose and nbsp, and get something functional, > > but not what I wanted and am used to. > > Not sure about this point. Somebody should check the Emacs FAQ, I > think there's some entry about this kind of things. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MetaKeyProblems might help. KiBi.
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