[somehow SOLVED] Alt+. shortcut works not right

Moorenkopf · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Posts: 189 Location: NRW

Hi there,
I set up a new amd64 system with gentoo and I'm used to bash's Alt+. shortcut.
On my old system I was prompted to enter a search pattern to select one of my latest commands. (console, xterm, aterm)
Now, I can only scroll though my latest commands history one by one, pressing Alt+..
I searched the forums and google and found out that I've got to put the follwing lines into my ~/.Xdefauls to enablbe this feature, but I haven't found anything about how to get the feature to work correctly.

smm · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject:

Hmmm, well I usually just type the first few letters e.g. emer and then use Pg.Up and Pg.Down to scroll through the commands that start with that. Not sure what you're after though.

Moorenkopf · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Posts: 189 Location: NRW

Well, I don't know why, but after posting my problem I began to emerge some other things and now it works.
I'll check my logfiles for a possible solution and post it here for others with the same issue, if I find out what made the difference.
Thanks so far, Stefan

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:33 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
This is not an installation related issue, so I think it belongs in OTG.
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