Re: alt key on Fedora not working

[Jai Dayal]

I see.  this seems to be the problem I'm having, and the last post mentions XFCE.

It seems that I just have to wait for a fix to be released?

Jai

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Jai,

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 16:18, Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should have been more clear: yes, I am using emacs -nw  when ssh-ed into
> the servers.
>
> However, on my local machine, there is a graphical emacs (23.2.1) and when I
> do alt-x, it works as expected (M-x)
>
> So the problem only happens over ssh connections
>

As I said, its a vte bug. Look at the bugzilla link I provided.

> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:06 AM, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>

>> Are you using emacs in the terminal (emacs -nw)? There was a bug in
>> vte which caused Alt keys to be neglected for all gtk based terminal
>> emulators with the latest version of gtk. Several distros were
>> affected (e.g. Debian). If my description matches your problem, see
>> comment 20 on this bug report
>> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792>.

  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Look at this link.

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Suvayu

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