Re: Still having lots of trouble with Alt/Meta keys
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:46:53PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
>
> > All I want is for my Windows keys to send Meta, and xterm to treat that like
> > Escape. This requires XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true. [For some reason, I have
> > to start an xterm, run xrdb in it, and start a new xterm for this to take
> > effect. I can't run it from a VT with $DISPLAY set; it just switches to the
> > X server instead of merging resources. Huh.]
>
> Try running xrdb with the -retain option:
>
> -retain This option indicates that the server should be instructed not
> to reset if xrdb is the first client. This never be necessary
> (sic.)
> under normal conditions, since xdm and xinit always act as the
> first client.
Ohhhh.... Thanks, I see why it happened now.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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