Re: Alt-Shift-P freezes XTerm

[Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>]

On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 12:38 -0700, Van Snyder wrote:

I have set up Alt-Shift-P as a macro in my editor (nedit) to run pdflatex.

If I accidentally do it when XTerm has keyboard focus, it locks up and the only thing I can do is kill it and restart.

How can I unlock XTerm after doing this?

There are no Alt-Shift sequences listed at https://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html (maybe it's only about output sent to XTerm).

Is there a list of Alt-Shift (and Alt-Ctrl and Shift-Ctrl) sequences for XTerm?

Van Snyder

I haven't figured out how to unlock the XTerm after accidentally giving it Alt-Shift-P.

But I did work out how to prevent it. Put

xterm*altIsNotMeta: true

xterm*altSendsEscape: true

in your .Xdefaults (or .Xresources, or link those files together), then

xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults