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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 3:59:13 pm | by JimParis | Revert |
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At some stage (eg xterm version 187 in Debian Unstable), xterm started treating keyboard input differently when the Alt key was pressed. (For PC keyboards, the Alt key has the "mod_1" X keyboard modifier set). For example, pressing Alt+x generates a "ø" and pressing Alt+q
now generates "ñ". This isn't very good if you want to use the Alt key in emacs(1) in the terminal. The best solution for this is to add
XTerm*eightBitInput: false
to either $HOME/.Xresources (for a single user) or to /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm (for a system wide default).
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+The same change can be made for Debian's UXTerm class, or "xterm*eightBitInput: false" can be used to apply to all instances
+of "xterm" regardless of the class name.
Another solution (that isn't as tidy as the above) is to use xmodmap(1)
to tell X that your Alt key should generate Meta:
xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L'
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For more information see xterm(1).
