Subject: bug#55362: 29.0.50; Super key no longer works on Wayland

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 16:22:26 +0300

> Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
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> Cc: Po Lu <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 15:04:25 +0200
> 
> Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
> editors" <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > That patch (and the old code) is incorrect, and the code before its
> > removal was another example of the PGTK port haphazardly copying code
> > from xterm.c to do stuff GDK is supposed to do by itself.  Mod4 is a
> > real modifier and can correspond to any (number) of virtual modifiers,
> > which might or might not contain Super.
> 
> But this seems to affect many people who had a working Super key before,
> so I think we should re-fix this on the Emacs side.

I agree.  At the very least, how about a knob, by default off, to
restore the previous behavior; we could then have that in PROBLEMS.