Here is a patch from a different thread about the same problem. Both threads where going on at the same time and I confused the two. I assumed it went to XEmacs beta but I now see it didn't :-( The patch probably fixes the problem in the wrong place, but I have been using it for 2.5 months now with no problems. I hardcoded the keysyms since older versions of XFree86 will not have these keysyms. They are just the SwitchVT keys. Cheers, Sean Index: event-Xt.c =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/event-Xt.c,v retrieving revision 1.47.2.3 diff -u -r1.47.2.3 event-Xt.c --- event-Xt.c 2002/12/12 06:21:32 1.47.2.3 +++ event-Xt.c 2003/06/22 04:11:29 ＠＠ -1253,7 +1253,26 ＠＠ KeySym bot = XLookupKeysym (ev, Mode_switch_p ? 2 : 0); KeySym top = XLookupKeysym (ev, Mode_switch_p ? 3 : 1); if (top && bot && top != bot) - modifiers &= ~XEMACS_MOD_SHIFT; + // SAM + switch(top) { + case 0x1008fe01: + case 0x1008fe02: + case 0x1008fe03: + case 0x1008fe04: + case 0x1008fe05: + case 0x1008fe06: + case 0x1008fe07: + case 0x1008fe08: + case 0x1008fe09: + case 0x1008fe0a: + case 0x1008fe0b: + case 0x1008fe0c: + break; + default: + modifiers &= ~XEMACS_MOD_SHIFT; + break; + } + //SAM } emacs_event->event_type = key_press_event; emacs_event->timestamp = ev->time;