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e4g

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Registered: 2013-05-19

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[SOLVED] ALT key and terminal applications over SSH

Hello all.

I recently switched to Arch and have enjoyed getting it customized. I also have a Synology NAS that I run several terminal applications on and manage them over SSH. Unfortunately it seems my current Arch setup is preventing ALT key combinations from being understood by the NAS over SSH. ALT+ any key prints a special character. This makes it difficult to use things like WeeChat over ssh that by default use ALT+a number to switch between chat windows.

For example... Alt+1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 gives me:

±²³´µ¶·¸¹

What I have already looked into:

-Conflicts with xbindkeys (not installed) and my WM (DWM). I changed the ModKey to the Windows key.

I apologize if this has already been answered elsewhere. I searched the wiki and the forums before posting.

Last edited by e4g (2013-05-21 00:42:41)

e4g

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Re: [SOLVED] ALT key and terminal applications over SSH

Bump.

Thanks ahead of time for any help.

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Re: [SOLVED] ALT key and terminal applications over SSH

Bumping is discouraged: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … te#Bumping

echo $TERM on your local machine and server.

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e4g

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Re: [SOLVED] ALT key and terminal applications over SSH

Bumping is discouraged: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … te#Bumping

echo $TERM on your local machine and server.

I apologize for bumping.

local machine: xterm
server: xterm

EDIT:

Actually I should say that the server is running the applications in tmux... and so from within tmux, the echo $TERM results in "screen".

Thanks again.

EDIT again:

Solved it. Somehow ended up with this in my .Xresources:

XTerm*eightBitInput: true

Switched to false and everything is working as it should. I've been trying to figure it out for days and it ends up being very simple (and my fault).

Last edited by e4g (2013-05-21 00:42:17)