After updating everything on my laptop to Rawhide (forced to by usrmove) I noticed that emacs was no longer responding to Control-Space for setting the mark. It seems like the X server itself is eating this key combination, since emacs works fine in a virtual console, but doesn't work in any terminal or directly under X. xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.11.99.901-3.20120124.fc17.x86_64 xev output from me pressing Control-space is here: http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/xev.log It seems a bit odd that X would capture this key combination ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel