Re: wish: right alt/meta to switch keyboard layout while pressed

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, Emacs currently just ignores the right Alt.
> 
> From your description you seem to say that your right Alt key is already
> configured for other apps to do some kind of keyboard switch.  So it seems
> that it's an X11 feature, in which case the problem may simply be a bug in
> Emacs which doesn't handle this feature correctly.

Emacs has no way of handling it correctly out-of-the-box, since it uses
internal input methods, which are a completely separate from `xkb'.

> Can you check with `xev' to see what events your right Alt key generates?

It shows up as `Super_R', while the left Alt is `Alt_L'.

Paul