Re: w32-pass-lwindow-to-system (& ...rwindow)

[Lennart Borgman]

Mathias Dahl wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>   
> > Looks like the trick we play around line 3005 of w32fns.c isn't
> > working.  What Windows version is that?  Is there someone on this
> > list who can make LWIN-r combo work for them in Emacs, in any
> > version of Windows?
> >     
>
> I just tested with emacs -q and it works as for the parent poster,
> i.e. Win+s gives me `search-backward-regexp' but Win+r opens up the
> Run dialog. The same applies for Win+e (open Explorer.exe).
>
> I use CVS Emacs from 2006-03-20 on Windows XP.
>   

This behaviour is consistent with MS documentation. To avoid that 
windows left and right keys open for example the run dialog with Win+r 
you have to implement a low level keyboard hook.

That is what I have done in the patched version of Emacs that you can 
download together with EmacsW32. I think we made a decision that this 
part of my patches should not go into Emacs 22. Actually my own opinion 
is however that it should.