It is certainly a weird issue. 

I can't see how org-mode would behave differently at the OS level from other emacs package bindings. Likewise, there is nothing different or unusual about how org-mode does key bindings. If there was a problem at the OS, window manager or interface library (i.e. gtk) level, it should affect all bindings. 

I'm sure this has been checked, but make sure it isn't the window manager/OS 'stealing' the keys. When I install emacs on any system, the first thing I do is use the OS or window manager facilities to remove/disable any OS/window manager shortcuts so that the key presses get passed through to Emacs. I doubt this is the problem because if it was, you would see the same issue iwth other Emacs modes/packages, not just org-mode. 

Unless someone can produce a minimum example which can reproduce this issue, I don't even see where to start. 

I shold have mentioned that the version of Ubuntu I use is Gnome and I build emacs with GTK. 

I should also mention that Ubuntu (well Debian really) install a versino of emacs which is customized and not stock-stnadard emacs. Also, my macOS version of emcs is built using brew install and not brew cask install, so it is built from the git repo and not using the macforosx binaries the cask version uses. 

Tim

On 31 May 2017 at 08:44, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 31, 2017, at 7:28, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Just add my confirmation that I have no issues with GUI bindings on either MacOS Sierra with emacs 25.2 and org 9.0.7 or under Linux with Ubuntu 17.04 (same emacs and org versions).

There were *some* people on help-emacs that could reproduce the issue on GTK+ and Xubuntu, I'm not saying it's everybody :)

> What happens if
>
> 1. You use emacs -q and just load the version of org which is bundled with emacs?

I've checked -Q with the bundled files and I get the same result.

> 2. you use emacs -q and just load latest org from elpa?

I always keep my packages up to date so I guess I have the latest package. I'll check.

Jean-Christophe



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