Re: GTK Emacs and input modules

[Yuri Khan]

On Sun, 4 Sept 2022 at 15:37, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > On the plus side, I won’t need to look for it when I migrate to
> > Wayland. On the minus side, I’m currently on X and I know your
> > warnings about PGTK Emacs on X not being a recommended configuration.
>
> It's not only recommended, it comes with severe defects up to and
> including crashes.

Never encountered any, except for the C-S-u issue.

> > I do not want any input module, not even the default one that seems to
> > grab Ctrl+Shift+U.
>
> Try GTK_IM_CONTEXT=simple.

No, with this build, Ctrl+Shift+U still pops up an underlined ‘u’ and
ignores keypresses up to the next entered hexadecimal digit.

> But your best option is simply to not use the PGTK build, and to put
> this in your ~/.Xresources:
>
>   Emacs.useXIM: false
>
> Thanks.

I’ll try that, thank you.

Just so that I’m prepared: do the C-S-u and C-; problems exist in PGTK
Emacs on Wayland?