Re: Keyboard mess

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> Run xkeycaps with its output redirected to a file called Xmodmap.new.
> Change the mapping of the BS key to mean 'Backspace' rather than 'Delete'
> and then write all of the keys out.  I then take this Xmodmap.new file
> and move it to /etc/X11/Xmodmap.  This works fine for all the
> applications I have tried so far but I am not really sure of the
> potential negative consequences.

Have you tried emacs (both as its own window and under an xterm)?  I know
I used to have problems with it because it maps ^H to "help" (kinda dumb,
in my opinion).
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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