On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 12:10:36PM -0500, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
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From: "Nicolas Mailhot" nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" devel@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"
There is a legitimate issue of conflicting keyboard shortcuts but I do ask that you tone down the inflamatory language, assume other people mean well and accept sometimes conflicts just happen. Once that happens, you'll probably notice that issues tend to get sorted faster, with more happiness all round.
Cheers, Peter