Re: Netscape BS & Del Problems

[Evan Thomas <evan@plexus.physiol.unimelb.edu.au>]

Lawrence wrote:
> 
> Markus M. Schneider wrote:
> >
[cut]
> > 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

Actually, Markus' suggestion of replacing previous by next and running
xrdb _did_ work for me.

Thanks to Markus' post and the Linux Journal article I've finally, after
many years, got most of my favourite applications using delete and
backspace correctly :)

Evan.
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Evan Thomas
Department of Physiology
University of Melbourne
Parkville, 3052
ph: 9344-4690  fax: 9344-5818


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