<Left-Alt>-<Shift> different from <Right-Alt>-<Shift> in Emacs on FC5

[Erwin J. Prinz]

All:

In a fully upgraded Fedora Core 5, when running Emacs in the graphical 
(Gnome) environment, <Right-Alt><Shift> works as expected, but 
<Left-Alt><Shift> just acts like <Shift>. This is true both for the GUI

emacs and "emacs -nw" in a terminal.

Conversely, in runlevel 3 (tty) <Left-Alt><Shift> works as expected, 
equal to <Right-Alt><Shift>.

Does anyone know how to get back to the default in the Gnome environment?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards, Erwin J. Prinz

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:41:18PM -0500, Erwin J. Prinz wrote:
>  All:
>  
>  In a fully upgraded Fedora Core 5, when running Emacs in the graphical 
>  (Gnome) environment, <Right-Alt><Shift> works as expected, but 
>  <Left-Alt><Shift> just acts like <Shift>. This is true both for the GUI
>
>  emacs and "emacs -nw" in a terminal.
>  
>  Conversely, in runlevel 3 (tty) <Left-Alt><Shift> works as expected, 
>  equal to <Right-Alt><Shift>.
>  
>  Does anyone know how to get back to the default in the Gnome environment? 
System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layout Options -> Alt/Win Key
Behavior -> Alt and Meta are on the Alt Keys.

Be warned: it is senile. I have filed a bug on it, 189120, but no-one
has yet accepted it.

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