GNU bug report logs - #55660
29.0.50; PGTK degrades to terminal-compatible keyboard events

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Derek Upham <derek_upham <at> mailfence.com>

Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 14:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Merged with 49211, 51002, 53200, 55362, 56653

Found in versions 28.0.50, 29.0.50

Done: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 55660 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Derek Upham <derek_upham <at> mailfence.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 55660 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55660: 29.0.50; PGTK degrades to terminal-compatible
 keyboard events
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 18:13:41 -0700

Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> What happens if you turn off input method support, by evaluating
> (pgtk-use-im-context nil)?  In general, these problems are not 
> with
> Emacs, but with GTK input method modules, and should be reported 
> to
> their developers instead.
>
> Emacs never "degrades" to "terminal-compatible" input events 
> when using
> a window system.  We directly use whatever it reports.

Calling that function restores normal rich events.

I’m using Ubuntu 20.04.  The distro installs ibus-gtk3 as part of 
the normal desktop experience, but I haven’t configured it. 
“im-config” reports that it’s using the default en_US locale.
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 148 days ago.

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