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Re: xf86/bs/delete just checking



On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:16:08AM -0400, Alice M. Pinard wrote:
> from Debian's point of view (ie, the point of view of correctly unpacked
>  and configured current woody packages)
> 
> if in X all my non-term stuff is treating "that key in the corner
> above the enter key" as "delete forward"
> 
> is that "the way it's supposed to be" and preferring it to be "delete
> backward/backspace" is a personal preference involving making changes in
> various configuration/keymap files
> 
> or "something's not right" and I should investigate whether I have
> extraneous/wrong configuration files somewhere ?

"Something's not right".
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s10.8 ("Keyboard
configuration") is the authoritative reference to what's supposed to
happen.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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