On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 14:29:40 -0600, Mark J. Tilford wrote: > One program I use (frotz) runs in an xterm and uses Alt-(various > keys). The program ran fine on my old redhat system, but on this setup, > Alt-U (or other key) simply registers as U. It works fine in character > mode, though. Any ideas how to get it to work in X? > > (from my ~/.Xdefaults file) > XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true > XTerm*eightBitInput: true
OK. > (from my ~/.xmodmap) > keycode 113 = Mode_switch > keycode 115 = Meta_L > clear mod1 > add mod1 = Meta_L > clear mod3 > add mod3 = Mode_switch OK (make sure that these are the right keycodes for Alt and Meta, you can check with xev). Is the remaining of your .xmodmap OK? For instance, I have: keycode 38 = a A ae AE Thus Alt-a gives æ and Shift-Alt-a gives Æ. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
