Hello everybody,

I switched from ATerm to XTerm (that one in Debian/Sarge GNU/Linux) and registered several problems with keyboard. At first, look at my ~/.Xresources file if there is not some stupid fault. Then I will describe the problem.

XTerm*termName:         xterm
XTerm*eightBitInput:    true
Xterm*eightBitOutput:   true
XTerm*metaSendsEscape:  false
XTerm*modifyCursorKeys: 2
XTerm*alwaysUseMods:    false
XTerm*brokenSelections: true
XTerm*locale:           false
XTerm*curses:           true
XTerm*cursorBlink:      false
XTerm*cursorColor:      red
XTerm*popOnBell:        true
XTerm*visualBell:       true
XTerm*messages:         true
XTerm*underLine:        true
XTerm*printAttributes:  2
XTerm*colorBDmode:      true
XTerm*color256:         true
XTerm*color1:           darkred
XTerm*color3:           orange
XTerm*color4:           navyblue
XTerm*color5:           magenta
XTerm*color6:           deepskyblue
XTerm*color7:           white
XTerm*background:       black
XTerm*foreground:       white
XTerm*pointerShape:     right_ptr
XTerm*font:             -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--12-110-75-75-c-60-iso8859-2
XTerm*saveLines:        10000

And now the problem:

When I type ctrl-left it will produce 3D output. But in ATerm it produced ctrl-p (I guessed that from behaviour of some programs, typically IRSSI, where ctrl-n|p switches window forth and back). Similarly in XTerm I get 5C instead of ctrl-n as in ATerm. The problem is much more serious, because any other combinations of modifiers and arrow-keys does work as well. My meta-something keypress is destroyed too.

Can anybody help to get back the behaviour I had in ATerm changing configuration of XTerm please? I spent 3 or 4 days (really, not kidding) in "googling out something", tried several tens of different keyboard remapings, XTerm X resources hacks etc., but with no progression. I am very sad of it, because I like XTerm the most (and because it can be found nearly everywhere).

Thank you for your advices.