Re: Trouble with uxterm in Snow Leopard
Re: Trouble with uxterm in Snow Leopard
- Subject: Re: Trouble with uxterm in Snow Leopard
- From: Richard Cobbe <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 07:51:06 -0500
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On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:06:18PM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 14:16, Richard Cobbe wrote:
>
> > Another data point, for what it's worth: upon starting uxterm, the first
> > line of the output of "stty -a" reads
> >
> > speed 38400 baud; 0 rows; 0 columns;
> >
> > whereas in a plain old xterm, I get
> >
> > speed 38400 baud; 63 rows; 80 columns;
>
> I'm surprised that your "plain old xterm" works... it shouldn't be working either.
>
> In any case, this is a known issue, and the workaround can be found in
> the list archives. You just need to put something in ~/.Xresources, but
> I can't recall the key/value at the moment. If you can't find it, ping
> me again, and I'll dig it up.
If you could point me to that, it would be very helpful. I've searched the
list archives, but most obvious search strings generate huge numbers of
false positives, so I haven't found it yet.
> > Second problem: I'm very used to the emacs-style editing keybindings that
> > bash supports, and under 10.5 and in plain old xterm, command acts as meta
> > for things like M-b, M-f, M-backspace and so forth. (I obviously have the
> > "Enable key equivalents under X11" option disabled.) Under uxterm on 10.6,
> > though, cmd-b and cmd-f insert â and æ, respectively, and cmd-backspace
> > appears to delete the previous character without updating the display, as
> > far as I can tell. Suffice to say that the command key isn't working as I
> > expect it to.
>
> Well... it looks like that's by design for uxterm... atleast as far as I can tell... urxvt doesn't show this behavior, and the XEvents are being sent correctly.
Odd -- what changed between 10.5 and 10.6?
> > Are these configuration issues on my end, or is this a bug in uxterm?
>
> Maybe a bit of both. This isn't really the best place to talk about
> xterm issues. I'd recommend mentioning this in the xorg mailing list
> (which I am on as well) since Thomas Dickey (the xterm developer) will be
> more helpful than me in these issues.
I'll look into that. Thanks!
Richard
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