Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes: [...]
> Sorry but I have no more ideas. I can only say that the behavior you > are seeing isn't normal. I don't see it. I believe other people are > not seeing it. Whatever the problem is it is something specific to > your system. The challenge is to find it. > > Bob This might be interesting to anyone who followed this thread. I posted my problem on gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg. It resulted in this 2 msg thread. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/49490 Briefly put, Troy K, had this to say: ,---- | Edit ${HOME}/XTerm and add the following lines: | *vt100.altIsNotMeta: true | *vt100.altSendsEscape: true | | Then start a new xterm. `---- It worked here... No more mystery char when pressing ALT + <whatever> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bo3dex8f....@newsguy.com