Solved Alt-b in /bin/sh in uxterm inserts "â" instead of moving the cursor back by one word

[Deleted member 65953]

My shell is /bin/sh. If I open uxterm and try to move the cursor back by one word using Alt-b, the letter "â" (a-circumflex) is inserted instead. The cursor is not moved. There is clearly something wrong.

When I do the same thing in xterm instead, the cursor moves back by one word as expected. I want to use uxterm. Is there anything I need to configure in uxterm in order to get the expected behavior?

 

[Deleted member 65953]

I have fixed the problem using these steps:

1. Add xterm*metaSendsEscape: true to ~/.Xresources
2. Then run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

Thanks to: https://superuser.com/questions/285306/alt-d-alt-f-etc-stops-working-in-my-xterm

 

[memreflect]

Hold Ctrl and click on (u)xterm to open a menu, and ensure that Meta Sends Escape is selected. If you want to make this a permanent change, just add the following line to ~/.Xdefaults (or if you prefer to modify ~/.Xresources, just remember to use xrdb -merge to merge the changes):

*VT100.metaSendsEscape: true

 

[Deleted member 65953]

Hold Ctrl and click on (u)xterm to open a menu, ...

Reminder to self: hold ctrl and left click on uxterm (not right click).