Hi,

Leandro GuimarĂ£es Faria Corcete DUTRA <[email protected]> 
(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.

> 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.

KiBi.

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