Making Netscape Happy!
> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Mike Patterson wrote:
>
> >
> > When I run a program in X with a text field, I can't backspace, tab, etc.
> >
> > Netscape complains about a bunch of missing key definitions, for example.
> >
> > Any ideas?
These questions are distinct and seem to come up pretty often. I guess
Netrape is a pretty popular program...
Getting Netscape to work without mangling the FSSTND and possibly
breaking upgrades to X stuff:
1. Copy everything from the netscape tar.gz to a directory
/usr/local/lib/netscape
2. Use the following script as /usr/local/bin/netscape
--cut--
#!/bin/sh
XNLSPATH=/usr/local/lib/netscape/nls
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/local/lib/netscape/XKeysymDB
export XNLSPATH XKEYSYMDB
exec /usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape $*
--cut--
3. chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/netscape
Getting backspace to work:
Add this line to your .xinitrc
xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = BackSpace'
Netscape doesn't like having the keymap changed under it, so if you
choose to just type this line in, you'll have to quit and restart
Netscape.
Guy
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