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24.5; Need double c-g to quit from a minibuffer

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From: Yujie Zhou <zhou <at> lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; Need double c-g to quit from a minibuffer
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:47:45 +0200

Dear Emacs maintainers,

on this device I need double pressing C-g to quit from a minibuffer, 
even starting from 'emacs -Q'. More specifically, after pressing C-x 
C-f, if I do not realease the control botton, I only need one C-g to 
quit the minibuffer. But if I realease, I need two. If I only press C-g 
once, the minibuffer shows the text quit, but the cursor is still 
focused on the minibufer, and I have to press C-g again within 3 
seconds, otherwise the Find-File minibuffer reappears after the text 
quit fades in 3 seconds. And in that case, I need to double-press again 
to quit.



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Message #8 received at 24339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Yujie Zhou <zhou <at> lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>
Cc: 24339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24339: 24.5; Need double c-g to quit from a minibuffer
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:41:54 -0400

Yujie Zhou <zhou <at> lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes:

> Dear Emacs maintainers,
>
> on this device I need double pressing C-g to quit from a minibuffer,
> even starting from 'emacs -Q'. More specifically, after pressing C-x 
> C-f, if I do not realease the control botton, I only need one C-g to
> quit the minibuffer. But if I realease, I need two. If I only press
> C-g 
> once, the minibuffer shows the text quit, but the cursor is still
> focused on the minibufer, and I have to press C-g again within 3
> seconds, otherwise the Find-File minibuffer reappears after the text
> quit fades in 3 seconds. And in that case, I need to double-press
> again to quit.

You've mentioned at http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/26715/5296

    I solved this myself by switching off the option of Show position of
    pointer when the Control key is pressed in Linux mouse setting. I
    guess there is some conflict between Emacs and this option.

so it seems some OS feature might be modifying the keystrokes that Emacs
sees.  Can you show the contents <f1> l (view-lossage) after you've hit
C-g with this option on?

Message #11 received at 24339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Yujie Zhou <zhou <at> lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>, 24339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24339: 24.5; Need double c-g to quit from a minibuffer
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 20:31:14 -0400

[please keep 24339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org on cc, thanks]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:36 AM, Yujie Zhou <zhou <at> lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> It shows C-x C-f <f1> l

Ok, looks like Emacs isn't seeing the keystrokes at all. Is it like
that for every key combined with ctrl, or just C-g?

>>
>>      I solved this myself by switching off the option of Show position of
>>      pointer when the Control key is pressed in Linux mouse setting. I
>>      guess there is some conflict between Emacs and this option.

What kind of system is this on (GNOME, KDE)? Maybe the best we can do
is add a description of the problem to etc/PROBLEMS.

Message #14 received at 24339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Yujie Zhou <zhou <at> lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>
Cc: 24339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24339: 24.5; Need double c-g to quit from a minibuffer
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 20:35:04 -0400

forward 24339 https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/5216
tags 24339 notabug
close 24339
quit

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 6:32 AM, Yuije Zhou <zhou <at> lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
>>>>       I solved this myself by switching off the option of Show position
>>>> of
>>>>       pointer when the Control key is pressed in Linux mouse setting. I
>>>>       guess there is some conflict between Emacs and this option.
>>
>> What kind of system is this on (GNOME, KDE)? Maybe the best we can do
>> is add a description of the problem to etc/PROBLEMS.
>
>
> Cinnamon.

Okay, I found this is a known bug of Cinnamon.  Closing since it's not
an Emacs bug.

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