mike-w@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (05/17/91)
>>> On 13 May 91 21:19:27 GMT, in gnu.bash.bug >>> "Me" == mike-w@cs.aukuni.ac.nz writes: Me> I'm running 1.07-cwru, but still can't get the Meta key working in an Me> xterm window. I've tried 'stty pass8', and several other stabs in the Me> dark ... any better ideas ?? Thanks to all those who replied. Since there was such a variety of responses, I thought I'd summarise: I was rather hasty in posting this to gnu.bash.bug ... the problem was with xterm itself (having recently moved to a R4 xterm). * In the R4 xterm translation table, the event "Meta<KeyPress>" is bound to `insert-eight-bit'. However, "Meta" in this context means "Meta_L or Meta_R" rather than "a mod1 modifier". * The "Meta" key on my keyboard actually sends the "Alt_L" keysym by default, so although it was registered as a "mod1" modifier, and treated as Meta by other Xclients (eg. emacs, R3 xterm) R4 xterm did not grok it as a Meta key. * The solution (with thanks to Liam Breck <breck@risky.ecs.umass.edu>) was xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L" -- /-------------------- mike-w@cs.aukuni.ac.nz ---------------------\ | Mike Williams, Computer Science, Auckland University, Aotearoa. | \-------------- What's another word for Thesaurus? ---------------/ -- New administrater uofa.