Alt keys in Xorg keyboard

I have a following problem, or a wish I'd say:
I would like to have both alt keys working in xorg (ratpoison WM) as they do in console.
What I would like to accomplish is to have my Alt keys working in xorg in ncurses based program where I need to change tabs with alt+numbers. Unfortunatelly, the only thing I get after pressing alt+numbers is: a plus-minus sign, superscritp numbers etc.
Any help wolud be appreciated. It seemed to be an easy task - disable some alt shortcuts, but I am completely stuck with it.
Thank you in advance.

Not sure if I completely understand this - both Alt keys work for your curses program in console but not X.Org? If this is the case I think maybe you need to "reassign" your Alt keys if X.Org is somehow changing them. Your keycodes may vary.. try using 'xev' to identify them if so.
xmodmap -e "keycode 64 = Alt_L"
xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Alt_R"
xmodmap -e "clear Mod1"
xmodmap -e "add Mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R"
Or maybe just assign Alt_R as Alt_L if that's the only one recognized during X. Just some ideas, anyway. Also make sure your .ratpoisonrc doesn't have the Alt+number keys mapped to something else, although I don't think this is a problem if you're getting output in your curses program.

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