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From: Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de>
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Subject: Re: Will Emacs support GTK4? Future of Emacs on Wayland?
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:50:57 +0200
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2025-10-17 02:39 ldo@nz.invalid:

> On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:50:00 +0200, Mekeor Melire wrote:
>
>> How do you imagine Emacs' future support for Wayland?
>
> I noticed a couple of differences in Emacs’ behaviour since moving to the 
> GTK build.

I assume you meant "PGTK (under Wayland)".

> 2) Emacs has lost the ability to distinguish the numeric keypad
> keys from the main keyboard. I had custom commands assigned to
> num-hyphen and num- plus, but those keys now just insert literal
> hyphen and plus characters, so I had to redefine my command
> keystrokes.

I can imagine that GTK version 4 fixes some of these key related
issues.