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Re: Can't use Alt- Commands in xterm

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:46:37 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey <dickey at his
dot com> wrote:
> Those can be done via resource-settings, e.g. in your $HOME/.Xdefaults,
> or in /etc/X11/app-defaults

Ok, I enabled 'Meta Sends Escape' option by adding this to my ~/.Xdefaults file:

> XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true

Also, I enabled 'Enable Reverse Video' using:

> XTerm*reverseVideo: true

I was able to figure out the name of the variables from:

> man xterm

Thanks for your help,
Craig

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