Re: Netscape BS & Del Problems

[Lawrence <ychim@ForeverMail.com>]

Markus M. Schneider wrote:
> 
> 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.

just commenting out the above four lines is ok.  substituting previous
by next won't help.

Lawrence


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