Re: Alt-o in xterm

[Thomas Dickey <dickey his com>]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, kilgota banach math auburn edu wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Russell Shaw wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > In an xterm, i could press alt-o to get both panels the same.
> > >
> > > Now after a few X windows upgrades, alt-o gives an "I" with
> > > two dots above it (0xEF, LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS)
> > > UTF-8 locale i guess. On the linux console it gives ESC-o (0x1b6f)
> > >
> > > How can i get mc to work in a utf-8 X setup?
> >
> > man xterm (see eightBitInput, metaSendsEscape, altSendsEscape)
>
> Specifically, it is altSendsEscape that needs to be set. This can be done 
> most easily by creating a file in your home directory which is called
>
> ..Xdefaults
>
> and in it you put the contents
>
> XTerm*metaSendsEscape:  true

one of those (altSendsEscape or metaSendsEscape), depending on how your
keyboard and xmodmap are setup.

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