Hi,
I cannot execute commands using the Alt key. For example, whenever I
press, Alt -. I get a zero instead of the previous command. This is
also a problem whenever I run emacs inside xterm. Alt-w produces a ÷
(division symbol) instead of executing a copy region command. Also
Alt-x doesn't give
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Craig Moore wrote:
Hi,
I cannot execute commands using the Alt key. For example, whenever I
press, Alt -. I get a zero instead of the previous command. This is
also a problem whenever I run emacs inside xterm. Alt-w produces a ÷
(division symbol) instead of executing a
In man xterm, see eightBitInput and metaSendsEscape.
Thanks, that lead me to this solution:
xterm-Main Menu-Meta Sends Escape
and now alt behaves as it should (Why isn't this the default
setting?!?) Is there someway to set xterm to always have 'Meta Sends
Escape' enabled?
Also, I would
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Craig Moore wrote:
In man xterm, see eightBitInput and metaSendsEscape.
Thanks, that lead me to this solution:
xterm-Main Menu-Meta Sends Escape
and now alt behaves as it should (Why isn't this the default
setting?!?) Is there someway to set xterm to always have 'Meta
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:46:37 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey dickey at his
dot com wrote:
Those can be done via resource-settings, e.g. in your $HOME/.Xdefaults,
or in /etc/X11/app-defaults
Ok, I enabled 'Meta Sends Escape' option by adding this to my ~/.Xdefaults file:
XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
Hi,
When I open a new xterm window using the XWin Server icon in the system tray:
(right click on icon)-Applications-xterm
it opens xterm, but the command prompt is not formatted correctly and
the window title is 'xterm' instaed of the current directory.
The command prompt looks like:
Instead of the Alt key, you have to use the Alt Gr key, then you'll
get all symbols you need in the xterm.
Sent from my iPod.
On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:25, Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Craig Moore wrote:
Hi,
I cannot execute commands using the Alt key. For
On 2/18/2010 7:13 AM, Craig Moore wrote:
When I open a new xterm window using the XWin Server icon in the system tray:
(right click on icon)-Applications-xterm
it opens xterm, but the command prompt is not formatted correctly and
the window title is 'xterm' instaed of the current directory.
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:34:56 -0500, Ken Brown kbrown at cornell dot edu wrote:
How do I configure the XWin Server so that it opens xterm correctly?
This happens because xterm doesn't start a login shell, and PS1 gets unset.
One way around this is to set PS1 in your ~/.bashrc file. For example:
On 2/18/2010 11:28 AM, Craig Moore wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:34:56 -0500, Ken Brownkbrown at cornell dot edu wrote:
How do I configure the XWin Server so that it opens xterm correctly?
This happens because xterm doesn't start a login shell, and PS1 gets unset. One
way around this is to
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
On 17/02/2010 18:59, Scott Fordin wrote:
FWIW, I've found that, under Vista, I have to run the Cygwin X server,
bash shell, and xterm as Administrator for everything to work.
There is nothing about the X server that requires Administrator
privileges. I run W7 with
Hi, I am still having problems with cygwin leaving blank xterm windows
up each time an xterm window opens. It does not go away until I exit
the xterm window, unlike the Xserver windows that go away once the
server is started. They fill up my task bar with useless icons which
makes
On 18 February 2010 17:55, Eliot Moss m...@cs.umass.edu wrote:
You have spaces in your PATH but probably did not quote it
properly in your scripts when you used it ...
No, thats not it. It works fine when I start xterm normally (either by
starting XWin Server or selecting it from the system
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Craig Moore
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:14 AM
When I open a new xterm window using the XWin Server icon in the system
tray:
(right click on icon)-Applications-xterm
it opens xterm, but the
On 18 February 2010 22:02, Mike Ayers mike_ay...@tvworks.com wrote:
No, no, .bashrc is off the suspect list. What's in ~/.bash_profile?
Ah! Yes, this is where the problem was. This is what I found in my
.bash_profile:
if [ -e /etc/bash.bashrc ] ; then
source /etc/bash.bashrc
fi
if
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