Re: lost my backspace key - solved, new question

[David Bellows <bfootdav@mindspring.com>]

Hello everyone,

OK, I checked out the manpage for xmodmap and figured out how to get my
backspace key to work properly.  I then inserted the following line into
my ~/.bashrc file:
xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
This does work. My question is, is this the best place to put such a
command?  Is there a better way to solve the problem?  BTW, I discovered
that my backspace key had been remapped to delete, giving me two delete
buttons.

Thanks,
David Bellows


David Bellows wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Hopefully this will be an easy one.  I just installed the lbreakout game
> from unstable.  It updated a couple of X packages enroute.  They didn't
> look like they were anything critical so I let it go ahead and do it.
> But now I've discovered a problem, my backspace key no longer works.  I
> have a basic 101 key keyboard (no windows keys).  Obviously backspace
> used to work for me, what can I do to get it working again?
> 
> Thanks,
> David Bellows