On 21/05/2026 5:19 pm, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote:

My /etc/default/keyboard contains

I recommend to check

    setxkbmap -print

output to get actual state of keyboard configuration.

that uses Meta is unusable, because emacs will say I pressed M-s-FOO
when I pressed left Microsoft Windows logo key + FOO, which used to be
just M-FOO.

Just to be sure, I would try "showkey" from a VT. I have seen that at least some additional keys may send modifiers even when the corresponding key is not pressed.

"xmodmodmap" output:

Just a notice: you may need to run xmodmap again after disconnecting and reconnecting a keyboard. Native XKB tools should not suffer from this issue.

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