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vpoinot
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 Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:09 pm Post subject: Alt + backspace doesn't work in xterm (xorg) [SOLVED] |
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I emerged XOrg today and now typing <alt>+<backspace> in an xterm doesn't work anymore (it should kill the previous word).
Note that this combination works in a console.
I tried to add the line:
| Code: | | Meta-Rubout: kill-backward-word |
to my /etc/inputrc file after reading the readline manual, but that did not change anything.
It seems that pressing <alt>+<backspace> produces something, though, because I can then delete my prompt ! Looks like it's outputting some kind of control characters...
Any idea how to have this combination work again as expected ?
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smonijhay1
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| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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just a guess, but in your .Xresources file what do you have for your
variable?
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vpoinot
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| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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I'm afraid I have no .Xresources file: I checked in my home dir and in /etc/X11, but could not find any such file...
Is this bad ? |
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vpoinot
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| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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I've just noticed something even worse: I can not get an "M" (uppercase "m"). Well, yes I can, but not in an xterm: <shift>+<m> won't produce anything ! Even in a console...
It works in my browser (Firefox), in Xemacs, etc.
I don't know if this can help you, but here are some of my settings. First, my kernel config regarding NLS:
| Code: | CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=m |
My /etc/rc.conf:
| Code: | KEYMAP="fr-latin1"
SET_WINDOWKEYS="yes"
EXTENDED_KEYMAPS=
CONSOLEFONT="default8x16"
CONSOLETRANSLATION="8859-1_to_uni" |
(By the way, if anyone can explain me why I have to set this CONSOLETRANSLATION variable to have accented characters in a console, I would appreciate... I mean, my kernel uses iso8859-1 by default and I use a latin1 keymap, so why should I translate anything to unicode ?)
My /etc/env.d/02locale:
My LC variables:
| Code: | bash-2.05b$ locale
LANG=fr_FR
LC_CTYPE=fr_FR
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR"
LC_TIME="fr_FR"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR"
LC_NAME="fr_FR"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR"
LC_ALL=
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Thanks in advance for your insight, this stuff is getting on my nerves ! |
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vpoinot
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:34 am Post subject: |
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[Sorry, I realize that I raised two different problems in the same post, but I do not know how to split it]
This uppercase 'M' issue is really annoying now: I can not use commands involving "Master" or "PCM" to configure ALSA for example ! I thought I could maybe copy/paste the words from my browser orXemacs, where it works, to a terminal: no, impossible ! The 'M' and the next character would get "swallowed" by the terminal: they do not appear when I paste the string...
First, I thought it was an xterm problem, but this is not the case as I cannot get an uppercase 'M' in a console either, nor in rxvt (I haven't tried in eterm, but I guess it would be the same).
As a sidenote, <alt>+<backspace> works in rxvt, so this seems to be an xterm problem.
Please help, this is very frustrating ! |
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vpoinot
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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I finally solved my first problem (the <alt>+<backspace> stuff): as smonijhay1 suggested, it was an xterm configuration problem.
I simply created an .Xresources file in my home directory and added the line:
| Code: | | XTerm.vt100.metaSendsEscape: true |
and
| Code: | | xrdb -merge .Xresources |
And now the "alt" key behaves as before. It seems that for some reason, XOrg resets XFree's default behaviour, in this respect.
I still have this upper 'm' problem, though... |
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