Does the X server in Rawhide eat Control-Space?

[Peter Hutterer]

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" 

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