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Re: Alt key not recognized as Meta in xterm


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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