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Re: Alt-x not working


From: Ian Zimmerman
Subject: Re: Alt-x not working
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:17:44 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On 2015-07-23 09:31 -0700, Steve Graham wrote:

> Yesterday it worked just fine, as in Alt-x run-scheme.
> 
> Today Alt-x doesn't do a thing, not even a comment in the window at the 
> bottom.
> 
> Other Alt- combinations show a reaction from the system.

These symptoms imply very clearly that something else captures the event
before Emacs can see it.  Most likely your window manager or "integrated
desktop" ie Gnome, KDE and so on.

The other possibility is a broken keyboard :-)

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