From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 11: 6: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from neodymium.btinternet.com (neodymium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D208C37B6DE for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:05:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.83.214] (helo=parish.my.domain) by neodymium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12fnzN-0001ZZ-00; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:05:14 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00984; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:06:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:06:04 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: David Banning Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: backspace produces ^H in X Message-ID: <20000413190604.A233@parish> References: <38F5CECB.41C67EA6@worldy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38F5CECB.41C67EA6@worldy.com>; from tracker@worldy.com on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:42:35PM +0000 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:42:35PM +0000, David Banning wrote: > I am getting a hopeless ^H when I try and backspace in X. > > I get get rid of it ny typing "stty erase ^H" but > I don't want to have to do this every session. > I take it that you mean in an xterm (or similar) when you say "in X". If so, then add this to ~/.Xdefaults: XTerm*ttyModes: erase ^H Note that ``^H'' is the 2 characters ``^'' and ``H'', not a literal Ctrl-H. It will be loaded automatically next time you run X, but to activate this change immediately in a currently running X session type ``xrdb < ~/.Xdefaults''. > I have tried putting that "stty erase ^H" command in .xinitrc > with no result and even put it in .profile > > I don't even know why this started happening. > > Any ideas? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message