Re: xterm and the backspace key, the saga continues.
Quoting crispin@iinet.net.au (crispin@iinet.net.au):
> > xterm-color
> mines 'xterm'. You could try
> export TERM=xterm
Doesn't help :(
> Try showkey -s
> then press delete and see what is dumped out. Post that back.
Hmm... When I trun showkey -s in my xterm I get:
[13:09] [ssmeenk@espresso:~] % showkey -s
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
zsh: 723 exit 1 showkey -s
An strace shows that I don't have permission to open /dev/tty0 and
/dev/console, and that an ioctl() on /dev/tty failed. When I run
showkey -s on the console everything works, but on console my backspace
and delete keys work like they should.. It is in xterms where they stop
working.
> the command dumpkeys might also help. Send the entry for delete
> dumpkeys | grep -i del
Same story here:
[13:12] [ssmeenk@espresso:~] % dumpkeys | grep del
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
zsh: 743 exit 71 dumpkeys |
zsh: 744 exit 1 grep del
And this
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 Jan 10 13:09 /dev/tty
crw------- 1 root root 4, 0 Nov 28 13:45 /dev/tty0
crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 Jan 10 11:16 /dev/console
seems normal.
> I have a book on all of this, but its at home. Ill bring it in to work
> tomorrow and if you haven't had any other answers, Ill see if that can
> help
I really appreciate your help so far!
Regards,
Sander.
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