Does the X server in Rawhide eat Control-Space?

[Tomasz Torcz]

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 at laposte.net>
> > > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > > 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.

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