bug#55362: 29.0.50; Super key no longer works on Wayland

[Thomas Jost]

Le 11 mai 2022 à 16:22 +03, Eli Zaretskii a écrit :
>> Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
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>> Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, 55362@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 15:04:25 +0200
>> 
>> Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
>> editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > That patch (and the old code) is incorrect, and the code before its
>> > removal was another example of the PGTK port haphazardly copying code
>> > from xterm.c to do stuff GDK is supposed to do by itself.  Mod4 is a
>> > real modifier and can correspond to any (number) of virtual modifiers,
>> > which might or might not contain Super.
>> 
>> But this seems to affect many people who had a working Super key before,
>> so I think we should re-fix this on the Emacs side.
>
> I agree.  At the very least, how about a knob, by default off, to
> restore the previous behavior; we could then have that in PROBLEMS.

>From a user perspective, this seems like a decent trade-off. For me, not
being able to use the previous behavior would mean that I'd have to stop
testing Git releases until Emacs 29 is released.

Not having such a knob would also prevent any user who is for some
reason stuck on an older version of Gtk to upgrade Emacs.

-- 
Thomas