Problem with Super key

[Jason Spiro]

2007/3/13, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
> Jason Spiro writes:
>
>  > These are very useful functions, but their key bindings are
>  > difficult for KDE and Gnome users to press.
>
> Are they more difficult for KDE/GNOME users than anybody else?

KDE and GNOME both bind M-TAB to something else (an application
switcher) so the keystroke doesn't get through to Emacs.

Control-Alt-<backspace> is awkward for all X Window System users.  It
is the hotkey for suddenly killing any running X server without
providing any warning dialog.  That's confusingly similar to
C-M-<backspace>.  Plus, on many machines, the same physical key
produces both Alt and Meta.

>  > Perhaps it'd be a worthwhile idea to create additional bindings
>  > that do these things?
>
> Maybe, but there's not much one can say until you specify keys.
>

Can anyone suggest some bindings?  I don't know the Emacs keymap so
well.  Hopeless ideas:  Maybe we can use something with TAB in it
instead of M-TAB?  How about Shift-Tab?  And for backward-kill-sexp,
how about Shift-<backspace>?  (But maybe those wouldn't work when
running in console mode.)

> Anyway, personally, I use neither KDE nor GNOME, and so cannot write,
> review, or test patches without inordinate amounts of pain.
> Volunteers?

Time permitting, I will test any patches that address this issue on my
Ubuntu 6.10 + Gnome PC.

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