Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#9816 closed defect (invalid)
Emacs sees both Command and Option as the Super key -> not a VirtualBox bug
| Reported by: | jayfinger | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 4.1.4 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
Problem: emacs running on the guest sees both the Command Key and the Option Key as "super" key.
Typing (in emacs) C-h c Command-A shows "s-a", typing C-h c Option-A shows "s-a".
It's darned near impossible to use emacs without an Alt/Meta key, hence I am setting the severity to "major"
Emacs is the only app with this problem: other apps have no problem differentiating Command and Option.
My setup:
VirtualBox 4.1.4. Host is MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 (Software Update reports no updates available). Guest OS: CentOS 6, Ubuntu 11.04 (both have same problem)
Note: if I copy the VM to a WIndows machine and start it under Windows VirtualBox 4.1.4 then emacs works fine. So this seems like a Mac-specific problem.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 12 years ago
comment:2 by , 12 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
| Summary: | Emacs sees both Command and Option as the Super key → Emacs sees both Command and Option as the Super key -> not a VirtualBox bug |
Thank you for letting us know.
Close this bug report. It's not a virtualbox issue. I would close it myself, but I don't appear to be able to.
I finally traced this down to being a gnome problem. I had set up on the mac so that gnome should swap the alt/win keys. That's wonky. Doing it with xmodmap makes it work fine.