[kmscon-devel] More complex keyboard shortcuts

[David Herrmann]

Hi


On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Ryan Mulligan <ryan at ryantm.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Sorry. I think I am wrong about the cause of my problems. I now think the problem is with Emacs and not the console. Thanks!
>
> Ryan
>
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Ryan Mulligan <ryan at ryantm.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> When I was trying to run Emacs in xterm today, I saw that keyboard shortcuts like "Ctrl-Alt g" do not work. Ctrl-V in xterm seems to generate the same results for "Ctrl-Alt g" as it does for "Ctrl-Alt f". I see the same behavior in my Linux system console.
>>
>> Is the console the correct place to be looking/configuring for handling these types of shortcuts?  If so, is it something kmscon supports or plans to support?
>>
>> Ryan Mulligan

Those shortcuts are sent as control-sequences over the TTY line.
They're configured on the host-side (emacs), not on the terminal-side
(kmscon). It might be true, that kmscon sends them incorrectly.
However, if you see the same issues on the linux-console, it rather
sounds like an emacs issue.

Thanks
David