Alt key not recognized as Meta in xterm

Thomas Dickey dickey@his.com
Fri Jan 1 17:05:00 GMT 2010


On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Andy Koppe wrote:

>>    XTerm*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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