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Fred Krogh
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Location: Tujunga, CA
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 Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject: emacs is ignoring .Xmodmap |
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I want a bunch of keys treated as "meta" in emacs. At present only the alt key works for this. My .Xmodmap contains | Code: | keycode 116 = Alt_R
keycode 117 = Alt_R
keycode 115 = Alt_L
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Until recently all these keys were treated as "meta" in emacs. When trying them in xev, all map to Alt_L or Alt_R as they should. But in emacs if I try the key with the window symbol on it, together with w, I get "A-w" is undefined. And a key with what looks like a small PDA in it together with a w, gives A-M-w is undefined. I want these key pushes to give M-w, but to also give meta for all keys. Is there a solution? Thanks,
Fred
P.S. I thought I'd see what would happen if I tried these keys in a tty window and discovered that <ctrl-alt-F1> does nothing. What is going on?? |
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xavier10
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Joined: 19 Jan 2004
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Location: Paris, France
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| Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:17 am Post subject: |
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I also have issues with emacs ignoring xmodmap right now.
I am typing a lot of latex on a latin keyboard (fr) and remapped my Alt_gr so as to reduce stress on my right wrist, using xmodmap. The command line sees my modification just fine, but emacs just ignores it.
How is it working ? How can emacs bypass the xmodmap, while ran under X ??? |
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ohnobinki
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Joined: 04 Nov 2004
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Location: Michigan, United States
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:15 am Post subject: Re: |
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I'm having this same issue. In my ~/.xinitrc, I have:
| Code: | # Have left Windows key be alt gr key
echo 'keycode 133 = Multi_key' | xmodmap - & |
but emacs still interprets that key as “s-” instead of seeing the composed character I attempt to type.
It seems like this must be some “feature” of emacs: how do I turn it off?  |
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ohnobinki
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Location: Michigan, United States
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| Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 3:12 am Post subject: |
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I read somewhere else, I can’t remember, that somehow launching Emacs with XMODIFIERS cleared gets it to respect modifiers. I think I had XMODIFIERS set to something for other programs but somehow the Emacs doesn’t require XMODIFIERS to be set to use the feature that setting XMODIFIERS adds to other programs—but I don’t remember as my setup is broken in other ways now. So if you have XMODIFIERS set, this might be a work around for launching Emacs itself:
| Code: | | XMODIFIERS= emacs & |
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