Bo Grimes <vcg...@fastmail.com> writes:
> I beg your indulgence. I am confident this isn't an Emacs problem, let > alone an org problem, but my eyes hurt from searching for an answer, > and this list, the only one I subscribe to, is populated with gurus. I > promise never to use it this way again. > > OS: PopOS 20.10, DE: GNOME 3.38.2 WM: Mutter > GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.14) > > M-S-$ does not spellcheck word. It will work from the menu bar, and it > will work if I drop into a tty and run Emacs. Emacs gives no > response in the minibuffer in the GUI when I press M-S-$. M-x > describe-key M-S-$ does nothing. C-h b C-s 'spell' reveals that indeed > M-S-$ is bound to spellcheck word. And other M-S- keys work like M-S-> > just fine. > > There has to be some keybinding outside Emacs taking precedence. I have > gone through dconf-editor until my eyes bleed. Done gsettings > list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings | sort | more and > gone line by line. I have done dconf dump / > dconf.dump and read > through them all, in addition to checking PopOS' keybindings in > Settings. And trying a different keyboard. > > Nothing in Tweeks, dconf, or Settings uses M-S-$, but I disabled > anything that uses Shift anyway (nothing uses $). No joy. I don't want > to rebind it for this machine only, nor do I want to go through the > hassle of installing a different DM/WM. > > StackExchange, et.al are full of problems with the the M key, but not > one specific keychord only. > Do you see the same behaviour if you run emacs -Q? -- Tim Cross