[RP] Re: meta not working

[Nikolai :: lone-star :: Weibull]

On Tue, Jul 22 2003, Henrik Enberg wrote something resembling:
> "Nikolai :: lone-star :: Weibull" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Is it only me, or doesn't the meta command work with a xterm?
> > nothing seems to end up in the xterm...
> > what the hell is going on?  i can send a ^T with a translation (binding
> > another key to string(0x14), but the meta command doesn't work!
>
> Put the following in your ~/.Xresources (or ~/.Xdefaults):
>
> XTerm*allowSendEvents: True
>
> Then do "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources", and restart XTerm.  If your system
> is properly configured it should happen automatically every time you
> start X.
>
heh...my god...i was guessing there was a resource for this, but i'd
have thought it was toggling it off.  anyway, i understand why the leave
it off by default, is there no better way of forwarding the meta key to
the application?  probably not eh?

anyway, thans!
        nikolai

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