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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:05:01 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Re: Alt key not recognized as Meta in xterm
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On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Andy Koppe wrote:

>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0XTerm*vt100.metaSendsEscape: true
>
> Actually that's not a hack, but the correct solution. I think this
> needs to be part of the default config in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm.

However, the reason that it's not is because there's no standard for
the meta key assignment.

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