Re: Backspace is delete
Colin Watson(cjwatson@debian.org) is reported to have said:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 07:47:38PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote:
> > Maybe I'm just being a clueless newbie, but I can't find where to put the
> > ^H back into my Backspace in X text applications.
>
> You should probably read /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Search
> for "Why doesn't my backspace, delete, or some other key work?". It's
> possible you've got too many uses of xmodmap and .Xresources
> *Translations - backspace and delete *should* work correctly out of the
> box now.
Colin
On a related (?) topic
Ever since moving to Xfree 4.x I have been getting the following
errors:
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: Cannot open "/var/tmp/server-1.xkm" to write
> keyboard description
> Exiting
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
Might some of the key mapping problems be caused by this?
ie. in xterm I have to use Ctrl Backspace to get backspace to work
as advertised. No big deal but I am curious.
Wayne
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