Re: Bug#366924: Meta no longer sends escape in xterm
Don Armstrong <don <at> donarmstrong.com> writes:
>
> Package: xterm
> Severity: normal
> Version: 210-3
>
> For some reason, my most recent upgrade to xterm 210-3 has broken
> metaSendsEscape: true; support. It's most likely not actually a bug in
> xterm, because downgrading to 210-2 (the previous version installed)
> doesn't fix the problem.
>
> However, rxvt doesn't show the same issue, so I'm kind of at a loss as
> to what the actual problem is.
>
>
> xev appears to return the proper things for alt and ctrl, and they
> work just like they always have in emacs and rxvt.
>
> Setting explicitely xterm -xrm '*metaSendsEscape: true'; doesn't do
> anything either. [Although, that *should* be redundant.]
>
> I'm using the macintosh us keyboard layout in my xorg configuration.
>
> Let me know if any other information would be useful.
>
> Don Armstrong
>
Don,
Did you ever figure this out? I've been having the same issue with my xterms on
a Gentoo system. If you manually set "altSendsEscape" (by using the xterm menu)
this seems to fix it, but I can't get it to be set from the command line.
Expanding on your comment, it seems REALLY redundant to have to set
altSendsEscape when 1. meta should act as meta; 2. alt is defined to act as
meta and metaSendsEscape is set.
I'm guessing that xterm somehow overrides the xmodmap settings?
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