[Parti-discuss] problems running xpra with emacs and sawfish

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:49 AM, dmg <dmg at uvic.ca> wrote:
> I am having trouble running emacs under xpra.
>
> I use sawfish as my window manager, and I have configured Alt-3
> (sawfish) to switch to workspace 3
> where I usually place emacs.
>
> The problem is, the Alt-3 is sent to emacs when it is run under xpra.
>
> any suggestions or ideas? I am attaching more information below.

I'm afraid I have no idea -- the xpra client is just an ordinary X
application as far as sawfish is concerned, sawfish shouldn't be
letting it see key presses that it would hide from other
applications...

-- Nathaniel