Comment 5 for bug 7416

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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:57:09 +0200
From: Guido Guenther <email address hidden>
To: Thomas Dickey <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#260232: xterm: XTerm*metaSendsEscape no longer working

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:24:08PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> I don't think the problem is within xterm (it's been a while since I tweaked
> the logic for this). More likely something in the keyboard configuration
> has separated the definitions that you were relying upon. What I do to
> debug this is to use xev and ensure that it's reporting "Meta_L" for the
> key. If that's right, I generally compile a debug version of xterm
It is. I already checked this before sending the report.

> (configure --enable-trace) and check the initialization of the modifiers.
Thanks, I'll try that.
As a related problem mouse button emulation also stopped working in
xterm. Mouseemu is a user space programm using the kernel's
/dev/input/event layer to emulate say right mouseclicks using e.g.
<CTRL>-<left click>. This still works in GTK based apps but no longer
in xterm. I don't intend to mix bug reports here, but showed up at the
same time and is also related to "modifier" keys.
Cheers,
 -- Guido