Hubert Well I have found the file that is causing a problem. .inputrc. To make the Delete key work as it should ( delete the character the cursor is on) I have in, .inputrc, the following line DEL: delete-char If I put the .inputrc file in the new users dir, they NOW have the same problem, so this is the offending file. I had other lines to make Home & End work but SuSE seems to have taken care of that (in us.map ?). Anyway, with that DEL line in there the console works fine. BUT, the xterm BackSpace key does not. If I remove .inputrc ( or comment out the DEL line) the console delete key doesn't work BUT the BackSpace key does work in Xterm! All the .X* and .x* files are now from /etc/skel. All Slackware files have been removed and/or had their filenames changed. I am curious why no-one else has reported this. It seems that SuSE has really done a good job in setting up the keyboard file. 990f the customization I had made to my custom.map has already been done by SuSE! Ctrl-Alt Keypad # to switch consoles, etc. I do NOT need my custom.map file at all now! You guys have done a good job on that. You might want to let people know that they don't have to go thrugh all that work, because you already have! Now, so I don't mess up anything SuSE has already done, where do you suggest I make changes to allow the Delete key to work in the console and the BackSpace key to work in Xterm? Thanks for getting me out of the forest so that I could see the trees. wayne Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: BackSpace in XTerm SuSE differences. Date: Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 11:27:15AM +0100 In reply to:Hubert Mantel Quoting Hubert Mantel(mantel@suse.de):
Hi,
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 wtopa@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Sirs:
I have tried all the usual tricks to get Backspace to work in Xterm.
in .xinitrc xmodmap -e 'keycode 22 = BackSpace'
xmodmap <<-EOF keycode 22 = Backspace osfBackSpace keycode 107 = Delete EOF
in .Xresources XTterm*ttyModes: erase ^? kill ^U intr ^C auit ^\ eof ^D \ susp ^Z start ^Q stop ^S elo ^@ note: ^H does work.
I have NOT tried to change anything (yet) in app-defaults/XTerm as my German is not good enough to figure out the comments on BackSpace.
The above are all from the HOWTO and do not work. Could you please advise how someone with a us keyboard get the BacksSpace to function in an X XTerm. I have it working fine in the console.
I do have an US keyboard (I do not like the german layout) and all keys work as expected after a fresh install. Maybe you updated your system and have some old config files around which redefine the keys? Are you having the same problem with a sample user? Maybe you have an old ..inputrc or something else? Are other programs affected or only xterm?
Thanks
wayne
Hubert
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