Re: Using Alt in xterm

["Andrew M. Davenport" <adavenpo@tropnevad.org>]

Set eightBitInput to false.  You might want to avoid xmodmap, too, if you can.

					-Andrew

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:29:40PM -0600, Mark J. Tilford wrote:
> One program I use (frotz) runs in an xterm and uses Alt-(various
> keys).  The program ran fine on my old redhat system, but on this setup,
> Alt-U (or other key) simply registers as U.  It works fine in character
> mode, though.  Any ideas how to get it to work in X?
> 
> (from my ~/.Xdefaults file)
> *eightBitInput:                 true
> *metaSendsEscape:               true
> XTerm*metaSendsEscape:          true
> XTerm*eightBitInput:            true
> 
> 
> 
> (from my ~/.xmodmap)
> keycode 113 = Mode_switch
> keycode 115 = Meta_L 
> clear mod1
> add mod1 = Meta_L
> clear mod3
> add mod3 = Mode_switch
> 
> 
> 
> Does anybody know how to get this to work correctly?
> 
> ------------------------
> Mark   Jeffrey   Tilford
> tilford@ugcs.caltech.edu
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