Alt-X is bound to M-8- instead of M-x ?

Alt-X is bound to M-8- instead of M-x ?

[B]

When I press Alt-x in an emacs window run from and xterm (emacs -nw)
the is bound to M-8- . However Alt-x is bound to M-x as it should
be for emacs running in its own window. 

I am using fvwm in Debian/Etch. 

My xorg.conf keyboard configuration is 

       Option          "CoreKeyboard"
       Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
       Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
       Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"

Would be grateful if you could give me a pointer on what
may be causing this problem and how to fix it.

sincerely
b thomas

Re: Alt-X is bound to M-8- instead of M-x ?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.10.2007 um 00:22 schrieb B Thomas:

> Would be grateful if you could give me a pointer on what
> may be causing this problem and how to fix it.

Most terminal emulators do not support, i.e. do not pass all X events  
to programmes running in them, for example a shell interpreter. There  
is some likelihood that your xterm might not make a difference.

If you want to, you can press, in *scratch* buffer for example, C-q  
and then your key combination (and again C-q <key combination>) to  
actually see what xterm passes to GNU Emacs.

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Re: Alt-X is bound to M-8- instead of M-x ?

[B Thomas]

I tried that and find that M-x is bound to
capital A with a tilde over it. In the xterm
itself M-x is bound to phi `ø' .

regards
b thomas

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:57:06 +0200, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:
> If you want to, you can press, in *scratch* buffer for example, C-q  
> and then your key combination (and again C-q <key combination>) to  
> actually see what xterm passes to GNU Emacs.
>
> --

Re: Alt-X is bound to M-8- instead of M-x ?

[Sven Joachim]

B Thomas <no@email.com> writes:

> I tried that and find that M-x is bound to
> capital A with a tilde over it. In the xterm
> itself M-x is bound to phi `ø' .

This can be fixed by letting xterm send Meta as Escape, i.e. by
putting a line with

xterm*metaSendsEscape: true

into ~/.Xresources.  It can also be set at runtime in the xterm menu
that pops up when you press C-mouse-1.

Cheers,
       Sven