Shortcut with meta-shift key doesn't work in emacs

Question

Hi,I can't use any shortcut that has meta-shift (alt and shift) in it because ubuntu will treat it as "change keyboard layout" shortcut (I map it to alt-shift since I use the same shortcut in windows) as soon as I press m-s. In windows change keyboard layout shortcut doesn't register until you release the key so any shortcut with m-s is usable in windows.

Is there any work-around without changing shortcut or meta key ? I kinda used to it.

Answer 1

Nothing easy that I know of.

You can manually bind everything that's M-S-??? to C-M-S-??? in your .emacs or at least all of the ones that you use...

Or you can just change the short-cut... how often do you change the keyboard layout? (I use dvorak, and qwerty, but I've never needed a shortcut for it, I just use the button...)

Answer 2

Change the Ubuntu change-keyboard-layout shortcut, to something else.

Or use Esc as Meta