Re: Netscape BS & Del Problems

[Paul Serice <ugs@laci.net>]

Markus,

Thanks soooooooooooooooooooo much!  I didn't even think to look in the
global resource file.


Paul Serice

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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.
> 
> Hope this will be of some help,
> 
> Markus.


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