Re: PGTK-related misconceptions

[Po Lu]

Trey <gpg@treypeacock.com> writes:

> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Morgan Smith <morgan.j.smith@outlook.com> writes:
>>
>>> I'd like to report that my super key stopped registering.  I suspected
>>> commit 1404e16975 caused it so I did a quick `git revert 1404e16975`
>>> ontop of 807682de1e and that fixed it.
>>
>> Crystal ball says you are using X Windows, and have to put
>>
>>   remove mod4 = Hyper_L
>>
>> in your ~/.Xmodmap file, because GTK doesn't try as hard as regular X11
>> Emacs to work around the common kind of virtual modifier
>> misconfiguration.
>>
>
> I'm experiencing the same issue here. My super key no longer registers,
> even using emacs -Q. However, I find it begins from the commit changing
> to GDK modifier masks 1c1ae6ba802cc5813fa6f8f90f21050aae6bb459. I've
> tested this with the following specs:
>
> WMs: River & Sway
> Emacs Version: Emacs 29.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> 3.24.33, cairo version 1.17.6) of 2022-04-18

What about GNOME Shell, which this change was tested on?

Anyway, if GTK is not setting the GDK_SUPER_MASK on Wayland, it is a bug
in GDK, and should be reported to its developers.