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Re: Alt key isn't Meta in Cygwin xterm (Norwegian keyboard)
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 14:04:27 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Alt key isn't Meta in Cygwin xterm (Norwegian keyboard)
- References: <87llqktqn1.fsf@home.lan>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Steinar Bang wrote:
> When I press Alt-d to delete the next work, in bash in cygwin xterm,
> instead I get the letter ä.
>
> The behaviour is identical whether the bash is running natively in
> cygwin on Win2k, or whether it's running over an SSH session to a RH8
> or to a debian testing/unstable (sarge) machine.
Hm, xev reports Alt+b but the bash gets â. Must be a problem with xterm.
-> Press Control and click into the xterm window. You'll get a menu.
Select "Meta Sends Escape" from the menu.
This should work.
bye
ago
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