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rxvt Backspace key doesn't delete anymore



After my vacation, I came back to a special root login that looked
like I needed to do some repairs.  This was not the normal login prompt.

The disks look fine (did e2fsck on them) but now XFree-3.3 wouldn't
recognise my [Windows] keys as Meta keys in X, and the Backspace key
enters a ~ character and beeps instead of deleting.

I fixed the Meta keys with xmodmap (even reinstalling XFree and
reconfiguring wouldn't help get back the default behaviour) but 
I don't know how to fix the backspace key.  

BTW, it works fine for root, and I can't find anything nasty in any
dot file.

`xev' says the backspace key is keycode 22, so I tried
 stty erase 0x22
It doesn't help.

Any ideas?
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Peter Galbraith, research scientist             <galbraith@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada  418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546


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