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24.4; Meta on left win key doesn't work

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Message #17 received at 20743 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com,
 André Wöbbeking <Woebbeking <at> web.de>,
 20743 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20743: 24.4; Meta on left win key doesn't work
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 01:28:22 +0200

tags 20743 moreinfo
close 20743
quit

npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net writes:

> tags 20743 moreinfo
> close 20743
> quit
>
> nljlistbox2 <at> gmail.com (N. Jackson) writes:
>
>> At 04:39 -0300 on Friday 2015-06-05, André Wöbbeking wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've a MicroSoft keyboard (german layout) and want the left Win key
>>> to be Meta and the left Alt to be Alt. To achieve this I used KDE's
>>> system settings for input devices (advanced options). After I changed
>>> the settings xev reports the left Win key as Meta and also all Qt/KDE
>>> programs do. But in Emacs left Win key gives me Hyper and left Alt
>>> gives me Meta.
>>
>> Emacs <META> is usually Alt on modern mainstream systems (see
>> M-: (info "(emacs) User Input")).
>>
>> Do you get the results you want in Emacs if you map that left logo key
>> to Alt instead of to KDE's idea of Meta?
>
> Since there's been no feedback from the OP, I'm closing this bug.

This seems to have not been closed at the time; closing now.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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