Bug 760605

Summary:	Alt-<letter> produces <letter>
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk>
Component:	Terminal	Assignee:	Kevin Fenzi <kevin>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	kevin, tomspur
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-12-06 16:47:36 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:

Description Denys Vlasenko 2011-12-06 15:54:55 UTC

I use Midnight Commander. I noticed that Alt-s and similar functions don't work - instead, ordinary letter s is sent to the tty.

I went to Edit->Preferences->Shortcuts and deleted all Fn definitions (since mc uses F1-10 and I don't want Terminal to intercept them). I also ticked "[X] disable all menu access keys" and "[X] Disable menu shortcut keys" checkboxes, for the same reason. I did it before I noticed that Alt-<letter> doesn't work, meaning: I don't know whether Alt-<letter> used to work correctly before I did that.

I verified that it's not a mc problem: I installed good old xterm and there Alt-<letter> works as expected:

$ hexdump -C
   <--------------------- I'm pressing Alt-s, then Ctrl-D several times
^[s00000000  1b 73                       |.s|
$

whereas in bare Terminal (no mc) it does not:

$ hexdump -C
   <--------------------- I'm pressing Alt-s, then Ctrl-D several times
s00000000  73                            |s|
$

I also tested it in Linux VT and Alt-s works there.

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2011-12-06 15:55:37 UTC

Affected version is:

Terminal-0.4.8-1.fc16.i686

Comment 2 Kevin Fenzi 2011-12-06 16:47:36 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 626792 ***