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Recently, M-2 (and the other M-N's) have stopped working for me in tmux. M-Up, M-Down, etc still work. It only seems to affect the M-NumberKey key chords.

I can run:

select-layout even-vertical

from the : prompt and it still works...

The keybindings still seem correct:

bind-key        M-1 select-layout even-horizontal
bind-key        M-2 select-layout even-vertical
bind-key        M-3 select-layout main-horizontal
bind-key        M-4 select-layout main-vertical
bind-key        M-5 select-layout tiled

I'm guessing it might not actually be tmux's fault since I haven't updated tmux recently, but I have no idea how to debug this...

I've tried with several terminal emulators (gnome-terminal, xterm, xfce4-terminal) in two different desktop environments (Gnome and XFCE4).

Any ideas on what's going on here or how I can debug this?

Other possibly useful info:

tmux version: 1.9a
Distro: Arch Linux
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  • Have you tried completely quitting tmux (or rebooting), and still gotten the issue?
    – demure
    Apr 19, 2014 at 23:06
  • Yes. Turns out it's a bug in gnome-terminal with the GNOME 3.12 release.
    – mgalgs
    Apr 20, 2014 at 3:32

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Turns out it's a bug in gnome-terminal with the GNOME 3.12 release. Bug description and workaround here. Spoiler: disable the Alt-<N> keyboard shortcuts in Edit -> Preferences -> Shortcuts.

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  • Terminator has a similar poor default, where you have to disable it's use of alt+arrows
    – demure
    Apr 22, 2014 at 2:22

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