Bug 51156

Summary: alt key doesn't work in konsole
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Christopher Colohan <colohan+kde>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Bugs <konsole-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christopher Colohan 2002-11-24 23:55:24 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.0.99)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc 2.95.3 
OS:          Linux

If I open a shell in the konsole window, the alt-key does not appear 
to work.  In particular, under tcsh, if I hit alt-f or alt-b to move
between words an "f" or a "b" is inserted into my command line instead
of moving the cursor.

If I run the same shell under xterm then it works fine, leading me to
believe that konsole is somehow trapping and filtering the alt-key
from events going through konsole.  This works fine in previous
versions of KDE (ie, 3.0 and earlier).
Comment 1 Waldo Bastian 2002-11-25 11:35:40 UTC 
works fine here with bash & current CVS
Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2003-02-21 14:33:19 UTC 
Works here too, which distribution do you use?
Comment 3 Olli Pietil 2003-03-05 18:18:59 UTC 
Have you checked your ~/.Xmodmap (or other xmodmap conffiles)? I had the same  
problem when alt was bound to Meta_L in my .Xmodmap. After I removed the line  
(so that alt gets bound to its default) everything works fine. Every other app works  
just like before, only konsole noticed the difference. 
 
Is this a bug or is konsole doing the right thing? At least every other terminal I have 
used treat meta and alt the same.
Comment 4 Stephan Binner 2003-04-14 20:30:08 UTC 
No answer. Works for us. :-)
Comment 5 Michael Garrett 2003-12-10 15:31:41 UTC 
xmodmap does not appear to function in Konsole unless you run xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap.  I have mapped my "printer" key to BackSpace and although it works in other KDE Applications it does not work in Konsole, unless I run xmodmap .Xmodmap