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Hello there,
I am trying to work out a way to start irssi so that my ALT key works as Escape (ie ALT-1, ALT-2, etc switches between windows). As of right now I've configured my ~/.Xdefaults file to contain:
XTerm*eightBitInput: False
XTerm*metaSendsEscape: True
However this obviously affects all xterm instances. What I would like to do is to be able to change this behavior at the CLI...something like:
xterm -xrm xterm*eightbitinput:false -xrm xterm*metasendsescape:true -e irssi
This does not work. My ALT key is still set to produce non-standard characters within irssi. I've played around with `xterm -xrm` and other behaviors work properly:
xterm -xrm xterm*background:blue -xrm xterm*foreground:white
This produces the expected result of opening a new xterm instance with a blue background and a white foreground.
Why is it that I cannot get the eightBitInput and metaSendsEscape options to work using the -xrm option? (even though they work when I have them in my ~/.Xdefaults?
Thanks in advance,
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I think capitalization matters: xterm*metaSendsEscape:true
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