On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 12:16:29 (+1000), Nicholas Croft wrote: > > After a power outage metaSendsEscape won't work for my main user. It is > defined in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm and covers all users including root. > I added a new user and it works there. > > I've tried adding "xterm*metaSendsEscape:true" to my .Xdefaults and loading > it with xrdb, but to no avail. I've rebooted as well. > > I pretty much depend on it.... > > Any thoughts, other than saving my files, doing deluser and adduser again.
No idea—except, could the power outage have flipped the NumLock state? It's only a guess. (Many keyboards have no indicator light.) Cheers, David.
