From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 12:15: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.worldy.com (ns1.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 818DB37B624 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:15:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tracker@worldy.com) Received: from tracker (ppp121.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.172]) by home.worldy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA20266; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:11:45 -0400 Message-ID: <38F5E37A.41C67EA6@worldy.com> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:10:50 +0000 From: David Banning Organization: SKy-Tracker of Canada Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: backspace produces ^H in X References: <38F5CECB.41C67EA6@worldy.com> <20000413190604.A233@parish> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens wrote: > > 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 Tried it. Works! - Thanks Mark. > > 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