The bahavior is the same in both the X version and the native version of rxvt(the meta key being alternate). If I press Escape Control-<key>, that works as expected. joe -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/