Re: Backspace key
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote:
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-|I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng
-|went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now
-|deletes the next character just like the delete key. I really want it to
-|delete backwards - this is almost as bad as those first heady days when I
-|discovered Emacs!
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-|Can't find the way on this - can anyone point me in the right direction ?
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-|Thanks for your time
-|
-|Glyn M
I had the same problem in Netscape and other apps. What I did was
"startx 1>log 2>&log". Then I checked the "log" file. It was full
of errors pointing to "xkbcomp". Based on the reported errors,
as root I did:
ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp
and restarted "X" and all has been OK since. I posted a question
earlier on why I had to do this but no one has been able to shed
any light. I feel better now knowing that I'm not the only one
with the "backspace" problem after an update.
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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
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