On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > 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?
Actually, that's my entire .xmodmap; I had never used it before and somebody suggested setting up the file like that. > For instance, I have: > > keycode 38 = a A ae AE > > Thus Alt-a gives ? and Shift-Alt-a gives ?. > ------------------------ Mark Jeffrey Tilford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
