Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
*- On 6 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about "Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,"
> Hello J.H.M.,
>
> On 02-Aug-99, you wrote:
>
> JD\> On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote:
> JD\>> On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character
> JD\>
> JD\> The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies on
> JD\> the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't have a
> JD\> "XkbDisable" in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> JD\>
> JD\> HTH,
> JD\> Ray
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried commenting this entry out of my XF86Config and on reloading, the
> keyboard mapping was unusable. I eventually found the return key was
> now my R-alt key, and the two lower alpha rows on the keyboard were
> mapped six keys to the left, amongst the random mappings on the rest of
> the keyboard. I couldn't find the right combination to get to a
> console and as xdm was installed, the system went straight into X
> leaving me with a completely unusable system. Fortunately I'm just
> using this system to learn with so I didn't mind having to completely
> re-install from scratch to get around this. A rather drastic solution
> though.
>
> Any hints or tips on what should be done before enabling the X Keyboard
> Extension?
>
Ouch!! How do you boot into linux? There are several ways to avoid
a reinstall. One way to fix this is to boot into single user mode(which
won't start anything up) and then edit the config file. If you use
lilo to boot you can get the lilo prompt and enter your label for linux
followed my 'single', i.e.
LILO: linux single
If you use loadlin just add single to the loadlin command line.
Another option is to boot with the Debian rescue disk, hit enter at the
boot: prompt and wait for the color selection dialog to come up. Then
hit alt-f2 and enter. Now mount your linux partition that has the
config file on it and edit it with ae editor that is on the rescue
floppy.
There is certainly no need to reinstall the os for a broken config file.
--
Brian
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