Re: annoyances which seem to arise from Unicode

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Theodore Kilgore wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > Theodore Kilgore wrote:

...

> > Have you tried ~/.Xresources? In mine (debian) i have:
> >
> > !Make Alt-o send ESC-o in mc, instead of "i" with daeresis.
> > XTerm*eightBitInput: true
> > XTerm*altSendsEscape: true
> > XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
>
> Well, I believe in the minimalist, incremental approach whenever 
> possible. So I decided to try these things one at a time to see what 
> happens. Indeed, the addition of the one line
>
> XTerm*metaSendsEscape:  true
>
> in $HOME/.Xresources does make the problem to go away, which is 
> associated with using su to log in as root in one of the open xterms.
>
> This still leaves one to figure out what to do about the problem when 
> one logs into another machine.

The users pc with the X display should have in .Xsession:

  xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
or
  xrdb -override ~/.Xresources
  xrdb -load ~/.Xresources


which will put those settings into the RESOURCE_MANAGER property on the root
window of screen 0.

In .Xresources, have:

  XTerm*metaSendsEscape:  true


Therefore, the same resources should get used by all X client programs, no
matter where they're run from, or whether the user is using an su xterm.