Richard Adams, quoting Jim Thingwold, writes:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a newbie,
>> Minicom seems to lock up I can not get any of the [Ctrl]-keys to
work,
>> nothing seems to work. The only way out of it is to close the
window....
>> BUT Minicom -m (works) and then I can use the [Alt]-keys. My
question is
>> why does it not work by typing "minicom" ?
>
>The man page says;
>
> -m Override command-key with the Meta or ALT key. This
> is the default in 1.80 and it can also be configured
> in one of minicom's menus, but if you use different
> terminals all the time, of which some don't have a
> Meta or ALT key, it's handy to set the default com-
> mand key to Ctrl-A and use this option when you have
> a keyboard supporting Meta or ALT keys. Minicom
> assumes that your Meta key sends the ESC prefix, not
> the other variant that sets the highest bit of the
> character.
>
>Now its been a while since i used minicom, however that sounds like a
>resonable explanation.
What follows is not an answer, but it might provide a pointer for
someone who has more understanding of this area to provide a fuller
explanation.
I was having just such difficulty with minicom - UNTIL I stopped trying
to use it in an X window. Dropping out of X, logging onto a virtual
console and running minicom from there did the job for me. Since I was
only trying to set up ppp, once I'd found this out I didn't investigate
further. I assume that it is something to do with the X server's
keyboard mappings.
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