Re: Using Alt in xterm

["Mark J. Tilford" <tilford@ugcs.caltech.edu>]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 14:29:40 -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)
> > XTerm*metaSendsEscape:          true
> > XTerm*eightBitInput:            true
> 
> OK.
> 
> > (from my ~/.xmodmap)
> > keycode 113 = Mode_switch
> > keycode 115 = Meta_L 
> > clear mod1
> > add mod1 = Meta_L
> > clear mod3
> > add mod3 = Mode_switch
> 
> OK (make sure that these are the right keycodes for Alt and Meta,
> you can check with xev).
> 
> Is the remaining of your .xmodmap OK?

Actually, that's my entire .xmodmap; I had never used it before and
somebody suggested setting up the file like that.

> For instance, I have:
> 
> keycode  38 = a A ae AE
> 
> Thus Alt-a gives æ and Shift-Alt-a gives Æ.
> 

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Mark   Jeffrey   Tilford
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