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Re: Alt key not recognized as Meta in xterm
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:05:01 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Alt key not recognized as Meta in xterm
- References: <3fcf00670912291605t21702c70s95471152221ec091@mail.gmail.com> <416096c61001010855v777fa848kaa4529d0c9c10402@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Andy Koppe wrote:
 ÂXTerm*vt100.metaSendsEscape: true
Actually that's not a hack, but the correct solution. I think this
needs to be part of the default config in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm.
However, the reason that it's not is because there's no standard for
the meta key assignment.
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