On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:42:06PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >> Your window manager is buggy. In 4.2, the ``Alt'' key carries both > >> Alt and Meta modifiers. > > > Yes, as I explained before, I found the source of the bug: X's > > keymappings changed to be (a) less useful, and (b) different from > > previous versions. I don't see how you think my window-manager is > > buggy, when X is the one providing bad information. > > X is binding *both* Alt and Meta to the Alt key. Your window manager > is buggy if it doesn't recognise that the Alt key has *two* modifiers, > and thus the ``Alt + m'' combination should match a binding for either > A-m or M-m.
That doesn't solve my problem, though. I didn't mention all the ramifications because I thought they were obvious, but here's a hint: the reason I use Alt to bind window-manager commands is that Meta is used by Emacs... > > Anyway, I finally just remapped my keys to something sensible. If you > > don't fix this before X4.2 hits unstable, > > The 4.1 configuration makes the 102 key layout incompatible with the > 104 key one. The 4.2 configuration makes the 104 key layout a strict > superset of the 102-key one. > > This was discussed in depth on Xpert, and the 4.2 layout reflects the > rough consensus reached. I may be wrong, but I seem to recall Branden > as saying that he doesn't care either way. Ew. Well, I guess that if the X people don't care, and Branden doesn't care, I'll just have to hack around it myself. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | The Turtle Moves! | \------- Listener-supported public radio -- NPR -- http://www.npr.org --------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
