Re: Bug#25689: xbase: Delete mapping in Xresources wrong if connecting from remote

[Christoph Martin <martin@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de>]

Branden Robinson writes:
 > On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:34:56AM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
 > > Brian May writes:
 > >  > Branden Robinson wrote:
 > >  > >> >No, wrong. xev shows that the xserver generates correct Backspace and
 > >  > >> >Delete keycodes.=20
 > >  > >>=20
 > >  > >> Somehow xterm is receiving Backspace as Delete, because the key
 > >  > >> translations in /etc/X11/Xresources don't affect Backspace.
 > >  > >
 > >  > >They do as of xfree86 3.3.2.3-1, per Ian Jackson's recommendation.  (Old
 > >  > >xterms on remote hosts don't understand the *VT100.backarrowKey resource).
 > >  > 
 > >  > I was under the impression that the xterm in question was running on the
 > >  > (hamm?) Debian host.
 > > 
 > > Correct. xterm on remote Debian hamm host. But Xresources on local
 > > (non Debian hamm) host.
 > 
 > Then it sounds like the problem can be solved by copying the overrides
 > from a Debian /etc/X11/Xresources (running xbase 3.3.2.3-1) machine to a
 > user-specific or global Xresources file on the non-Debian host.
 > 
 > Alternatively, you could do some fancy magic with your .{t}cshrc or
 > .bashrc on the Debian box, and have an if block conditional on the
 > value of $DISPLAY, and if true, do merge in the overrides with xrdb.
 > Inelegant, but it should work.
 > 

Sorry, now I mixed up some things and gave you the wrong
information. My last statement was wrong.

Correst is: Xserver on local host (eg. hcl exceed), then login via xdm
to remote Debian host. /etc/X11/Xresources and xterm from there.

I don't know why it is working from if I login locally into a debian
box, but not if I come from remote.

Christoph