Re: metaSendsEscape not working after power outage
On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 12:16:29 (+1000), Nicholas Croft wrote:
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> After a power outage metaSendsEscape won't work for my main user. It is defined in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm and covers all users including root. I added a new user and it works there.
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> I've tried adding "xterm*metaSendsEscape:true" to my .Xdefaults and loading it with xrdb, but to no avail. I've rebooted as well.
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> I pretty much depend on it....
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> Any thoughts, other than saving my files, doing deluser and adduser again.
No idea—except, could the power outage have flipped the NumLock state?
It's only a guess. (Many keyboards have no indicator light.)
Cheers,
David.
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