xterm and emacs keybinding issue in FC3

[Jonathan Underwood]

Satish Balay wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, J.Underwood wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dear All,
>>
>>I'm experiencing a bizarre key binding issue with xterm as shipped with FC3:
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>>a) If I open an xterm and inside it start emacs -nw -q inside it, then Alt-x simply prints a greek phi symbol. 
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>>b) If i start an xterm and then ssh in to a remote FC3 box (from a localFC3 box), and then emacs -nw -q I see the same thing with Alt-x as above, and also the "old" problem with backspace giving out C-h instead of Del.
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>>None of these problems occur inside a gnome terminal. Just for kicks, I confirmed the same thing happens running xfce4 (as shipped).
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>>I remain perpetually confused as to where the problem comes with keybindings, and where I should be fixing it, so all help greatfully received.
> 
> 
> Reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=135505
> 
> Satish
> 

Ah, yes. It seems the problem is with xterm, and not emacs, at least as 
far as the Alt key is concerned. The following fixed it for me (posting 
here just in case others googling for this problem come accross this thread)

a) Add "XTerm*eightBitInput: false" to .Xresources in $HOME
b) run xrdb .Xresources

Now it all works. Oddly even though that's my only line in .Xresources, 
running xrdb also changed xterms from appearing in a with a grey bacground.

Note that you'll have to do this each time you log in, as .Xresources 
doesn't seem to be loaded normally.

Jonathan