RE: Emacs not receiving C-M-right from keyboard

[Drew Adams]

> > I have a new Dell Latitude D620 laptop. I have everything,
> > including Emacs, installed identically to the way I had it
> > on my old machine. However, the key sequences `C-M-right',
> > `C-M-left', `C-M-up', and `C-M-down' are apparently not
> > being sent to Emacs from the keyboard of the new machine.
> >
> > In emacs -Q (it doesn't matter which Emacs version), `C-h k'
> > followed by using `C-M-right' still waits for me to hit a
> > key - the `C-M-right' is not seen by Emacs at all. Opening
> > a dribble file shows the same thing:
> > `C-M-right' key sequences are not recorded.
> >
> > I've looked through the Emacs doc. I've tried to google for
> > something about this, but I haven't found anything. Anyone
> > know what's going on and how to fix it? Thanks.
>
> Are you running under X? If so, what window manager are you using?

No, I'm on MS Windows - a native Emacs build. I do have Cygwin installed
also, but the Emacs I use is not a Cygwin Emacs.

> I'm wondering if it is either a modmap issue or if your window manager
> might be stealing the keys and not passing them on to emacs. If your
> running under X, are you running from within an XTerm or 'native' X
> Toolkit/GTK? as I've seen xterms have similar issues as well.
>
> The fact the keystrokes are not showing up in a dribble file
> makes me think they are not getting passed to emacs at all and
> therefore the problem isn't actually emacs.

I agree; the problem is not Emacs. I just don't know how to find the problem
(and solution). (The same Emacs builds (20, 22) work fine on the old laptop,
which is supposedly almost identical, so Emacs is not the culprit.) I'm
hoping someone here might have run into this or otherwise has an idea.