Re: AltGr in command key sequence not working

[Sebastian Schubert]

Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
[..]
>>
>> What does it mean? Somehow change src/xterm.h, I guess.
> 
> It means to move the line with <X11/Xutil.h> from its original position
> before keysym.h to the new position after keysym.h, in
> emacs/src/xterm.h. Xutil.h seems to make some valuable changes and
> introduce valuable macros, but these obviously need some preparation
> from keysym.h -- or keysym.h is destroying the "values" which were
> introduced by Xutil.h ...

It works! Thanks!


> Here is an excerpt from emacs/src/xterm.h from CVS:
> 
> #include <X11/Xlib.h>
> #include <X11/cursorfont.h>
> 
> /* Include Xutil.h after keysym.h to work around a bug that prevents
> correct recognition of AltGr key in some X versions.  */
> 
> #include <X11/keysym.h>
> #include <X11/Xutil.h>
> 
> 
> So we should recommend to use a pretty modern GNU Emacs, one from last
> few months, GNU Emacs 21.4?

This one does not include the fix, just mentioning this small fix somewhere
easy to find would be nice. Most of the recent Linux distributions use
X.org AFAIK.

Thanks!
Sebastian