Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch)

[Jan D.]

> > I am testing the patch and something like it will be checked in.  But
> > it would be nicer if Emacs could determine that Hyper and Super
> > is bound to fake keys and just ignore them.  I'm currently using XKB
> > to get geometry info to determine that, but I wonder if there is a
> > better way.  The reason I want this is that with the proposed patch
> > the logo key becomes Super on my system, which is not really helpful
> > either.
>
> Can you please tell me what your configuration is?  I am quite 
> surprised
> that it does not work as expected, doesn't xev also report that your
> logo key is Super_{L,R}?

It was a Solaris machine.  There was no xev on it.  It may be a bad
configuration anyway, it was not my machine.


> > If we could determine that Super is a fake key it would become Meta
> > which is so much better.
>
> Fake keys have no symbol at level 0, so before the
>   for (code_col = 0; code_col < syms_per_code; code_col++)
> loop, you can test whether
>   syms[((code - min_code) * syms_per_code)] == NoSymbol
> and skip this key in this case.
> I did not want to go this way because it is XFree86-centric, the other
> solution is more generic.

I'll go ahead and check in the original patch, checking for fake keys
required more logic anyway to do the right thing, so in the end it ended
up being larger than your patch.

        Jan D.