I'm trying to bind Ctrl+Shift+W to something in emacs under Ubuntu. Nothing happens when I press that key combination. When I call describe-key
on that key combination, nothing happens.
Is Ubuntu intercepting that key combination?
Update:
I'm running emacs in graphical mode under the default Ubuntu UI (whatever that is). If I type C-S-q
or C-S-s
they work fine, but when I hit C-S-w
, emacs behaves as if nothing happened.
Is there a way to see if the window manager is intercepting the key press?
Best Answer
Start another X server on a different console, with emacs as the main process:
Now you have no window manager, and can determine whether
C-S-w
makes it through to emacs.That's the first stage in tracking down the problem. If the problem is Emacs itself, then look first at
function-key-map
; if it's the window manager, thenps -fHu$USER
(in your main X session) to find out which window manager you've been given.