[4741] in Athena Bugs
Re: X11R4 xterm doesn't recognize meta key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Apr 12 09:03:03 1990
From: epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 90 09:02:52 -0400
To: krishna@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
> When I try to use the meta- key on a vax (at least), it doesn't recognize it.
> I can't do M-f or M-b on my command line to move backwards or forwards words,
> and it's mildly annoying. I bet this is a known bug, but ... you never know...
It works for me. I suspect you are using the wrong application defaults
for the xterm program. I also believe if you pull down the right mouse button
menu, it will look wrong also. What you probably want to do, is have an
environment variable set (assuming x11r4 is attached on /mit/x11) before
starting xterm that has:
setenv XFILESEARCHPATH /mit/x11/${hosttype}lib/X11/%T/%N:/usr/lib/X11/%T/%N
This tell x11r4 compiled programs where to look for application
defaults.
The meta key option was simply adding the following line to the
app-defaults so in theory, you could just add the following to you
.Xresources instead of doing the above.
! Athena local change so that tcsh will interpret the compose key as escape
XTerm*eightBitInput: false
Ezra
