I haven't used xterm in a while, but I've been trying to now, and I can't do alt+keypress anymore. The only lines I have in my ~/.Xdefaults are: xterm*eightBitInput: false xterm*metaSendsEscape: true xterm*jumpScroll: true xterm*multiScroll: true I saw someone having a similar issue at http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/08/msg00156.html but that was from 2004. Also I'm using +minimal xorg-x11. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. exec xterm 2. open irssi 3. alt+2 doesn't switch to the second window. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.1 2-ck5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-ck5 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X1 1/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac alsa animation avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cdr cups dvd emboss encode firefox fortran gdbm gif glx gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad mikmod minimal mmx mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg ncurses network noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsf no bsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j nooro norege xp norhino noxalan noxerces nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl p ng ppds python quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse ssl tcpd theora tiff truet ype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis win32codecs xml2 xprint xv zlib userland_G NU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
I fixed it. I'm no longer using +minimal as a USE flag for xorg and I think either that or doing a revdep-rebuild fixed the problem.
