From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 22 15:21:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ezln23.earthbroadcasting.com (ezln23.thedial.com [207.135.131.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 175001560B for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@thedial.com) Received: from thedial.com (localhost.earthbroadcasting.com [127.0.0.1]) by ezln23.earthbroadcasting.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA81116 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 16:17:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from chris@thedial.com) Message-ID: <3797987F.A0BDAB4F@thedial.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 16:17:35 -0600 From: Christopher Taylor X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backspace in 'screen' References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Christopher Taylor wrote: > > > Is there anyone out there who has been able to get the backspace key to > > work in screen? > > > > I've tried... > > 1. deleting /etc/termcap > > 2. setting TERM to various different settings and running 'tset' > > 3. setting it manually by 'set erase ^H' > > > > Nothings seems to work. I am running screen from and rxvt window. TERM > > is set to 'xterm' in the rxvt window and 'screen' once screen has > > started. Backspace works fine everywhere else, but does not work in > > screen > > rxvt has a _REALLY STUPID_ default for backspace, try adding this > to your .Xdefaults: > > Rxvt.backspacekey: ^H > > and restart X. That worked...thx --Chris -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Christopher Taylor Technical Director Earth Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) 415 East 200 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 phone: (801) 322-3949 cell: (801) 541-8287 email: chris@thedial.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message