On Sun, 4 May 2008, Thomas Adam wrote:
On 04/05/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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If you think this problem is cured in 2.4.25, I am glad to try it. But I
bet it is not. The problem is as I said one of those weird problems that I
But this doesn't have anything to do with FVWM. OK, I am not using
Slackware, but neither can I reproduce it, and I can't say I am
surprised. There is nothing inherently weird in starting a termina,
typing in su and then for it to mangle your bindings.
It's -possible- it's something to do with XTerm, such as settings for
its resource for thing like:
eightBitInput
eightBitControl
And you perhaps not having set:
XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
In your ~/.Xdefaults --- but this would explain really why you see
this when you su.
That would be a reasonable possibility if he started a new xterm after
doing su, but I don't see that in the description (it sounds as if he's
running in the same xterm).
There is a control sequence in xterm which can change this mode, but
I'd be surprised if mc is using it.
Perhaps root's $TERM is set differently - or $TERMINFO and/or
$TERMINFO_DIRS are set. It's not unusual for root's login scripts
to set $TERM
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Thomas E. Dickey
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