Why doesn't M-C-s work for me?

[Mark Geary <geary at acm dot org>]

<left Alt>-<left Ctrl>-s (will abbreviate as M-C-s from here-on) does
nothing for me. Does anyone have any thoughts on why it might not be working?

More info:

I get no action in either an xterm or an emacs window. If I use right
Alt, or right Control, or both, I get the expected action.

In emacs, describe-key can see C-s, M-s, C-M-a but cannot see C-M-s,
it does not react at all. Likewise, in an Xterm, cat -v can see

control a: ^A
control s: ^S
meta control a: ^[^A

but shows nothing for meta control s.

xev shows the expected events for everything mentioned above except
that pressing "s" while "Control_L" and "Meta_L" are down produces no
event.


My current setup:

Dell Optiplex 780
Win XP sp3

$ uname -srvmo
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin

Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.5.3.0 (20090222)

I have the left control and the caps lock keys swapped with a registry edit:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,1d,00,3a,00,3a,00,1d,00,00,00,00,00

--
Don't forget to stop and eat the roses.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://x.cygwin.com/docs/
FAQ:                   http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/