I've been running Cygwin/X for a while now, and I used to regularly use
PuTTY to log in to a linux machine, then launch gnome-terminal using my
local machine as the display. I only recently discovered Cygwin Ports,
and jumped at the idea of running gnome-terminal locally on my machine.
It works almost perfectly; a shortcut on my taskbar launches it, and
from there I'm off creating new tabs/windows and using it to my heart's
content.
The one problem is that my ALT key seems to not work at
all. I've checked every compatibility setting in gnome-terminal (which
seems to only affect the Backspace and Delete keys) to no avail. It's
not a problem with my X server as the ALT key works fine in any other
GUI-based app I launch. A very annoying workaround is to use the ESC
key as my meta modifier, but there are two problems with that: the
location of the key is inconvenient, and (the much more annoying issue) I
can't simply hold down the ESC key when using it. For example if I
wanted to delete a sentence, one word at a time (as opposed to one char at a
time), I would normally hold
down the ALT key and tap Backspace as many times as I want, once per word; with
the ESC
key workaround, I have to hit ESC once for each time I hit backspace.
Is
there any way to get the ALT key working again? I feel like there's a
simple configuration/solution though I've scoured Google and came up
with nothing. Maybe I'm using the wrong search phrases or maybe I'm the
only one with this problem (seems unlikely), but I can't find
anything. I'm on Windows 7, and I used the cygwin ports setup
instructions to install gnome-terminal 3.2.1-1. Any help will be much
appreciated!
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