>I use irssi a lot and when I use the Alt-(num) to swap between windows I >get... Funky characters. That is, I get subscript 2 for alt-2, subscript >3 for alt-3, mu for alt-4, etc... And it gets rather irritating. Is this using XTerm? I've got two lines in my ~/.Xresources file which I think are just for situations like this: XTerm*altIsNotMeta: true XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true I hope this helps, Francis