The default behavior of KDE is evidently to capture certain keystrokes
rather than pass those keystrokes on to whatever application is
running.

For example, in a konsole window I ssh to some machine, and
then execute "emacs -nw". That's when the bad news begins.

Emacs relies upon specific keystrokes for various commands
and editing functions. However, rather than allowing those
keystrokes to be passed through to emacs, the konsole
captures the keystrokes -- for it's own purpose.

A specific example is the sequence control-meta-s which instructs
emacs to initiate a regular expression search. The konsole refuses
to pass that on to emacs, and instead captures it and consequently
brings up a "Rename Session - Konsole" dialog box.

How do I turn off all these lame shortcuts so that applications in
general ,and emacs in particular, are usable -- meaning they
receive the keystrokes I type ??!!

Use rxvt instead of konsole? :)

Not sure whether it's konsole or KDE, though, since
I don't use that hog.


Cheers,
Tink

That's konsole's shortcut - running from another terminal should fix it (like xterm), or the proper thing to do would be to go to "Settings -> Configure Shortcuts", find each shortcut in the list and set it to "none" instead of "default".

Thanks!!!