Gnome/Emacs: <ctrl>-_ not working?

[Leif Hedstrom]

Leif Hedstrom wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running "rawhide" FC, and as of about a week ago or so, the key 
> bindings for "Undo" in Emacs (<ctrl>-_) no longer works (it echoes 
> back an _ character). I'm 100% positive I have not changed anything in 
> my .emacs configurations. I'm using Gnome, so I'm guessing something 
> is intercepting the key before it hits emacs?


Hi again,

Michal Jaegermann suggested I'd take a look at the 
Preferences->Keyboard, and although nothing there seemed to fix my 
problem, it gave me an idea to try. For the longest time, my 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf has had this setting:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option      "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
EndSection

(who uses CAPS-lock, right?). This has worked great for a long,long 
time. Changing the above to:

        Option      "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"


solves the problem I had (with <CTRL>-_ not working). This is obviously 
a workable solution, but I would have preferred to keep "ctrl:nocaps" if 
possible. Is there something in Gnome that "conflicts" with this? In the 
Prefs->Keyboard, it shows the correct setting for either of the above 
xorg.conf settings, but only "ctrl:swapcaps" works well.

Thanks!

-- leif