Re: mod4 in terminal is ignored, works from gui

[Dan.Espen]

Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I am using xmonad as my window manager, urxvt as my terminal emulator, and 
> emacs24.
>
> When I start the gui version of emacs, I am able to use my "windows"
> (mod4) key as the super key and I can issue key commands such as "s-s"
> (which emacs doesn't recognise yet, but I plan to use it for
> something).
>
> However, when I start `emacs -nw` from urxvt, the mod4 is completely
> ignored. If I type "windows"-s, then just "s" is printed to the
> screen.
>
> For ease of moving around, my config files are public:
>
>   https://github.com/fommil/unix
>
> Could somebody please help me to get emacs in terminal mode to recognise the 
> mod4 key?

Terminal programs do not send modifiers as separate events.
You might be able to configure urxvt to send a unique escape sequence on
Mod4-s.  Then configure Emacs to understand that escape sequence.

-- 
Dan Espen