keyboard action under X

[Harry Putnam]

Troy Korjuslommi <tjk at tksoft.com> writes:

[...]

>> My setup:
>> Keyboard is 104 key english... A cheapo Logitech k120 new.
>> Older PC (intel P4)
>> Running Debian (testing)
>> LXDE desktop in xorg
>> Keyboard Newish 104 key cheapo Logiteck K120
>> 
>> Briefly put: On my keyboard I see, what is to me, unusual behavior
>> when I press what is labeled as ALT on the left or right of space bar,
>> followed by just about any other letter while in an xterm.  In my case
>> it is the real "Thomas Dickey" xterm, not one of the pretenders.
>> 
>> Example is Alt+x: `ø'
>>            Alt+=: `½'
>> 
>> so I'm getting what one might expect from an alt_gr key.

> Edit ${HOME}/XTerm and add the following lines:
> *vt100.altIsNotMeta: true
> *vt100.altSendsEscape: true
>
> Then start a new xterm.
>
> Troy

Thank you, thank you.  That does the job.