Package: xlibs
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
Severity: normal
Once upon a time, things were nice. My Alt key produced Alt things,
my Leftwin key produced Meta things, Rightwin was Compose/Multi-key
and Menu was Menu. So I started binding useful commands on Alt-* in
Emacs.
Then X evolved, and Alt-stuff started producing Meta-stuff. Bummer.
Then things evolved some more, and Leftwin-stuff produced
Hyper-Super-Meta-stuff. Bummer again, but Emacs was still usable
(even though it lacked my Alt-* shortcuts).
Then came along the dreaded 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8, last night. Its changelog
mentioned stuff related to altwin, so I was delighted. I promptly
upgraded, restarted X and Emacs, and was shocked to discover that it
was more broken than the day before: Alt-stuff is back to generating
Alt-stuff, which is cool since I can now goto-line and boxquote-region
and the like in one key combo, but Leftwin-stuff is still generating
the hubristic Hyper-Super-Meta-stuff combo. So I'm left with an Emacs
without a Meta key, which means I have to use Esc+w, Esc+q, Esc+y,
etc. I'd like it if I could go back to §1 please...
Relevant info (I hope):
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
Option "XkbOptions"
"ctrl:nocaps,altwin:left_meta_win,compose:rwin"
EndSection
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) XKB: model: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
(**) XKB: layout: "fr"
(**) Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps,altwin:left_meta_win,compose:rwin"
(**) XKB: options: "ctrl:nocaps,altwin:left_meta_win,compose:rwin"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
[...]
(II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver
Thanks,
Roland.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8
Versions of packages xlibs depends on:
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm64.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi64.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxmuu1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 lightweight X Window System miscel
ii libxp64.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X pixmap library
ii libxrandr24.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxt64.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii libxtrap6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol-trapping
ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System event recording an
ii xlibs-data4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client data
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