Alt key does not work in xterm after Feisty upgrade
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Ubuntu |
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Bug Description
After upgrading from Edgy to Feisty, I found that applications running in xterm don't see the effect of the alt-key modifier. Specifically, running a shell (tcsh, in my case) inside an xterm used to allow emacs-style editing commands, such as alt-b, alt-p, etc, to work. In Edgy I needed some customizations to get this behavior: I run xterm with the option: "-xrm XTerm*metaSends
I tried several other -xrm options but without success. Following the advice given in bug #72530, I also tried those settings, but also unsuccessfully.
In case it matters, I have disabled /usr/bin/xkbcomp to address a different problem with xmodmap customizations[1] in bug #97175.
Ted
[1] https:/
I also realized that crtl-alt-F1 and friends did not work for me. Investigation eventually revealed that disabling xkbcomp was responsible for breaking the alt key in these two situations, but as near as I can determine not in any other case.
Closing bug.