Control blocks Alt in keybindings

[Tassilo Horn]

Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> writes:

>> [Control blocks Alt in keybindings]
>>
>> Is this a bug or what can be the culprit?
>
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865 will come into play if
> you have certain XKB options such as grp:ctrl_shift_toggle.

My only option is

    Option      "XkbOptions"      "ctrl:nocaps"

and indeed, if I disable it I can type C-M-a (in this order).

I'll add my observations to this bug report.

Bye,
Tassilo