On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 10:50:02PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 12:10:36PM -0500, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 7:05:14 PM > > > Subject: Re: Does the X server in Rawhide eat Control-Space? > > > > > > > > > Le Mer 8 février 2012 12:17, Richard W.M. Jones a écrit : > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > It seems a bit odd that X would capture this key combination ... > > > > > > IIRC it's consumed by input method switching now (whatever the name > > > is this year) > > > > > > I don't think it's a good idea, lots of stuff already grabbed this > > > combo (IIRC > > > some xkb maps do depend on ctrl+space) > > > > I have even opened FESCo ticket https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/798 > > to say on that because personally I think it's unacceptable and projects > > with such bad behaviour should be forced > > to learn playing with the rest. At least we still can add conflicts in our > > packages when we have to deal such changes because in my case Eclipse is > > totally unusable and I consider this as the only possible way to have > > working Eclipse package if ibus is not changed. > > to quote the ibus maintainer from the FESCo ticket: "we use [sic] > Control+Space for more than ten years" But only recently ibus started to be installed and/or run by default, I think it was GNOME 3.0 or 3.2. Previously it only conflicted for people choosing to run ibus. Now it conflicts on every Fedora installation. -- Tomasz Torcz Only gods can safely risk perfection, xmpp: zdzichubg@xxxxxxxxx it's a dangerous thing for a man. -- Alia -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
