How do I prevent xfce terminal from grabbing the Alt key?

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Wed Nov 3 18:55:25 CET 2010


On mar., 2010-11-02 at 14:21 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> How can I stop xfce terminal (i.e. xfce4-terminal) from grabbing the Alt
> key for its own purposes?
> 
> I want my Alt key to act as a shift key and allow me to type things like
> accented characters easily rather than do the very odd things it does by
> default in an xfce terminal.  
> 
> I think it's *trying* to change tabs but since I virtually never use
> tabs in my terminals that's totally redundant.  What it actually does is
> nothing at all with most keys on the keyboard and shows "(arg: n)" with
> numeric keys.  xfce terminal doesn't just steal the alt+n keys though,
> it prevents Alt working at all.
> 

Btw, that looks like
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601998 (just a note, no
resolution there either).

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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