Re: Netscape BS & Del Problems

["Markus M. Schneider" <Schneider@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de>]

Paul Serice wrote:
> 
> >From everything I've read in the HOWTO and in the mini-HOWTO and in
> the Motif HOWTO and the Netscape FAQ section on this, everyone seems
> to have trouble getting BackSpace to work properly with Netscape.
> 
> I have just the opposite problem:  Delete doesn't work.

> I do not have a ~/.motifbind file.  To my knowledge, I do not have any
> entries in ~/.Xresources which would modify the way Motif works.

I am using communicator 4.03 and had also this problem. I found however
that there was the following in the /etc/X11/Xresources file from the
installation:

! /etc/X11/Xresources
!
! This is the global Xresources file.  It is used by both xdm and xinit.

!
! Fix Motif client handling of backspace/delete
!
*XmText.translations: #override\n\
      <Key>osfDelete: delete-previous-character()
*XmTextField.translations: #override\n\
      <Key>osfDelete: delete-previous-character()

Now this fix seams to do just the opposite what we want. Therfore I've
commented it out. After restarting the X-Server and netscape the problem
was solved. Perhaps one can avoid the server restart when substituting
delete-previous-character() by delete-next-character() above, executing
"xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources" and restarting netscape.

Hope this will be of some help,

Markus.


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