Some of us have a meta key that is more easily reachable than alt.
(This is particularly common among Emacs users, but those of us with
strange ergonomic keyboards are in this situation too.)
---
 konsole/konsole/TEmuVt102.cpp |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/konsole/konsole/TEmuVt102.cpp b/konsole/konsole/TEmuVt102.cpp
index 76772ab..afdefbe 100644
--- a/konsole/konsole/TEmuVt102.cpp
+++ b/konsole/konsole/TEmuVt102.cpp
@@ -945,7 +945,8 @@ void TEmuVt102::onKeyPress( TQKeyEvent* ev )
                                      encodeMode(MODE_AppScreen		, BITS_AppScreen ) + // VT100 stuff
                                      encodeStat(TQt::ControlButton	, BITS_Control   ) +
                                      encodeStat(TQt::ShiftButton	, BITS_Shift     ) +
-                                     encodeStat(TQt::AltButton		, BITS_Alt       ),
+                                     encodeStat(TQt::AltButton		, BITS_Alt       ) +
+                                     encodeStat(TQt::MetaButton		, BITS_Alt	 ),
                           &cmd, &txt, &len, &metaspecified ))
 //printf("cmd: %d, %s, %d\n",cmd,txt,len);
   if (connected)
@@ -977,7 +978,7 @@ void TEmuVt102::onKeyPress( TQKeyEvent* ev )
     scr->setHistCursor(scr->getHistLines());
 
   if (cmd==CMD_send) {
-    if ((ev->state() & TQt::AltButton) && !metaspecified ) sendString("\033");
+    if (((ev->state() & TQt::AltButton) || (ev->state() & TQt::MetaButton)) && !metaspecified ) sendString("\033");
     emit sndBlock(txt,len);
     return;
   }
-- 
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