Re: Problems in the virtual terminal on an Asus eeePC

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

kilgota banach math auburn edu wrote:
>
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> The fix for the funny characters in X does not work here. I had this 
> problem in the xterm. So I created an .Xdefaults file with the contents
>
> XTerm*metaSendsEscape:  true
>
> This cures the problem on my big computer, and recently there has been a 
> thread about this topic here, too. But that .Xdefaults file has 
> absolutely no effect on the same problem on the eeePC, alas.

Try .Xresources instead. Do xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources, then open a new
xterm after each change to see if it works.