Re: PGTK-related misconceptions

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Morgan Smith <morgan.j.smith@outlook.com> writes:
>
>> I'd like to report that my super key stopped registering.  I suspected
>> commit 1404e16975 caused it so I did a quick `git revert 1404e16975`
>> ontop of 807682de1e and that fixed it.
>
> Crystal ball says you are using X Windows, and have to put
>
>   remove mod4 = Hyper_L
>
> in your ~/.Xmodmap file, because GTK doesn't try as hard as regular X11
> Emacs to work around the common kind of virtual modifier
> misconfiguration.
>
> People using X should _never_ use PGTK.  The regular X build does a much
> better job at supporting that than PGTK ever will.

Hey, thanks for this! I'd set --with-pgtk on my X11 machine ages ago,
not even knowing why, and reconfiguring without that flag solved my
problems with "C-;" being received as plain ";" (and some other funky
key misreadings). This is why we don't copy-n-paste config!

Thanks again,
Eric