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28.0.50; [feature/pgtk] Wrong modifier used as meta with pgtk

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From: Tom Hughes <tom <at> compton.nu>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 51001 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51001: 28.0.50; [feature/pgtk] Wrong modifier used as meta with pgtk
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:27:52 +0100

On 12/09/2022 11:25, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Tom Hughes <tom <at> compton.nu> writes:
> 
>> I have "Meta is mapped to Left Win" selected in gnome-tweak-tool
>> which adds "altwin:left_meta_win" to xkb-options in gsettings and
>> causes xmodmap (via Xwayland) to report Meta_L as mapped to mod4.
>>
>> That works fine in a traditional emacs and causes left Alt to be
>> recognised as an alt modified but with pgtk left Alt is being
>> treated as meta instead and I've been unable to find any way to
>> make it be recognised as alt.
> 
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
> at the time.)
> 
> There's been a lot of changes in the input area in Emacs lately -- do
> you still see these issues on the current "master" branch?

This still seems to happen on master, yes.

Tom

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Tom Hughes (tom <at> compton.nu)
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