Re: alt->meta->esc status quo

2001-12-26 Thread Stefan Schwandter
Tor Slettnes wrote: > Charl> Dear Debian-Xers, At the moment, I need to set the X > Charl> resource xterm*metaSendsEscape to true and to do xmodmap -e > Charl> "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L" to get Alt+key combinations > Charl> to work in an xterm, e.g. on the command-line (e.g. alt

Re: alt->meta->esc status quo

2001-12-26 Thread Stefan Schwandter
Charl P. Botha wrote: > Do you mean the first or the second solution? I can only speak for the > first, which works perfectly here and which is _a_ solution according to > Thomas Dickey. I meant the second one. If the first one is a working solution, can't it (or anonther solution) be integrated

Re: alt->meta->esc status quo

2001-12-26 Thread Stefan Schwandter
Charl P. Botha wrote: > It's not always the desired solution. Some keyboards _do_ have separate > META keys and always binding meta to alt would be very rude. The same goes > for binding escape to meta. Ok. But rxvt or gnome-terminal for example work out-of-the-box. I'll try to find out what th

Re: alt->meta->esc status quo

2001-12-26 Thread Stefan Schwandter
Tor Slettnes wrote: > Charl> Dear Debian-Xers, At the moment, I need to set the X > Charl> resource xterm*metaSendsEscape to true and to do xmodmap -e > Charl> "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L" to get Alt+key combinations > Charl> to work in an xterm, e.g. on the command-line (e.g. al

Re: alt->meta->esc status quo

2001-12-26 Thread Stefan Schwandter
Charl P. Botha wrote: > Do you mean the first or the second solution? I can only speak for the > first, which works perfectly here and which is _a_ solution according to > Thomas Dickey. I meant the second one. If the first one is a working solution, can't it (or anonther solution) be integrate

Re: alt->meta->esc status quo

2001-12-26 Thread Stefan Schwandter
Charl P. Botha wrote: > It's not always the desired solution. Some keyboards _do_ have separate > META keys and always binding meta to alt would be very rude. The same goes > for binding escape to meta. Ok. But rxvt or gnome-terminal for example work out-of-the-box. I'll try to find out what t