Hubert Very interesting. Just made a NEW user and NO, he doesn't have that problem! The only files he has are the 112-113 files SuSE makes for a new user. So the problem is NOT a SuSE problem but a problem uith files carried over from Slackware. One problem on MY account, but not on root, is that the Xterm does NOT like my custom.map file. I get errors in xterm on the 1st 16 keys in that file. In Slackware there were no errors from custom.map. I diff'ed my map with root's and they are the same!(??) The ONLY thing effected is xterm, every other program, so far, works fine, and the only key that doesn't work correctly is BackSpace! (??) I see that some of the files in the new user are looking for a /home/.profile. I have carried over the practice of the OTHER distributions and do have a .bash_profile but can't see, anything obivious, that that change would cause. I will go tru, file by file, the new user files to compare/check for differences that may be causing this. I will put my Sherlock Holmes hat on and dig into this. Thanks for asking the right question to put me on track, again. 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:

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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?

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Thanks

wayne

Hubert

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