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I'm running XFree86 4.2.1, and xterm seem to ignore the Meta
modifier. Emacs has no problem with Meta-modified key, and xev seems
to get them ok. When I type Meta-b, I get:
KeyPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x39, subw 0x0, time 1770620779, (22,177), root:(313,468),
state 0x0, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
KeyPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x39, subw 0x0, time 1770621076, (22,177), root:(313,468),
state 0x8, keycode 56 (keysym 0x62, b), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 characters: "b"
KeyRelease event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x39, subw 0x0, time 1770621169, (22,177), root:(313,468),
state 0x8, keycode 56 (keysym 0x62, b), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 characters: "b"
KeyRelease event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x1200001,
root 0x39, subw 0x0, time 1770621559, (22,177), root:(313,468),
state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 characters: ""
It does seem odd that XLookupString gives an unmodified b when the
state is 0x8, but I don't know if that's a problem. When I type a
Control-modified character, xev outputs the control character itself
for XLookupString. But when I run anything in an xterm (cat, bash,
emacs), Meta-modified keys are treated just like unmodified keys.
I've tried all four combinations of eightBitInput and metaSendsEscape
with no luck.
I built X (and the rest of the system) from source myself. The first
few times I ran it, I didn't have this problem. But after I finished
setting up my xdm/server configuration, this started happening. (And
somehow I reproduced the problem on another machine with different
hardware when I finished setting up a similar configuration there.) I
don't know which configuration change triggered it. At the same time,
I started getting a problem where "xset r rate ..." would segfault and
the server would output an error message from xkbcomp. Sorry, I don't
have the message anymore; I think it was something about a "(null)"
filename. Since this error involved xkbcomp, I tried rebuilding X
with BuildXKB as NO. After that, xset worked, but xterm still doesn't
see Meta. xf86config attached. Any ideas?
paul
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