After an upgrade to Fedora 17, I now have xulrunner-13, and conkeror up-to-date as of 2012-06-19.  The
meta key works elsewhere, but is seemingly completely undetected in conkeror.

[20:51:15][hgb@morag:~]3 xulrunner --version
Mozilla XULRunner 13.0 - 20120605112244

I use xulrunner 12.0 at work with the same conkeror code and Fedora 17 (so I'll need to hold upgrading
there...), and everything works nicely.

I see this both with firefox -app on OpenBSD and xulrunner on Arch Linux. Nothing has change in my X or
conkeror configuration recently, and the meta key continues to work in emacs and xterm.

$ uname -a
OpenBSD jet 5.2 GENERIC.MP#326 amd64
$ firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 13.0.1

$ uname -a
Linux shale 3.3.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 5 15:20:32 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ xulrunner --version
Mozilla XULRunner 13.0 - 20120606114039

This bugzilla bug would seem to be relevant. Perhaps a workaround can be implemented in conkeror:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751749

It looks like this bug will be addressed upstream in some form in a future firefox/xulrunner version.

In the meantime, I'm just going to turn patch my firefox 13 to re-enable the meta key. Attached is the
trivial patch I'm using if anyone else wants to do the same.

It seems recent xulrunner versions treat the windows logo key as os key instead of meta key like before.

I'm using this patch to be able to use that key:

https://github.com/ubolonton/conkeror/commit/79cbf379fccbb65c63a7debdab1e7dca110e67d0.patch

Doesn't seem to fix the problem for me on fedora 18 (xulrunner-18.0.2).

Ubontolon's patch does not appear to directly address the issue of
conkeror's meta key not working.  It doesn't do anything to the definition
of the "M" modifier.  It adds a new "s" modifier.

We should have a discussion about what is the best thing to do - add a new
"s" modifier, alter the existing "M" modifier in some way, or both.

hgb: does it solve the problem for you if you apply ubuntolon's patch, and
put the following in your rc?

  modifiers.M = modifiers.s;

Doesn't help.  It now says 'meta is undefined'.

Reporting here the result of our conversation on irc.  The solution was to
put the following in the rc:
 
  modifiers.M = new modifier(
      function (event) { return event.metaKey; },
      function (event) { event.metaKey = true; });

I started a new ticket to talk about 'osKey' support, since that wasn't the real issue with this one.

http://bugs.conkeror.org/issue443

Marking this issue resolved.