From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 16:12:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.ASPI.net (ns.ASPI.net [207.228.215.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE7D14E4F for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petersen@aspi.net) Received: from aspi.net (Dialup-141.ASPI.NET [206.183.149.141]) by www.ASPI.net (2.5 Build 2639 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA01789 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:12:14 -0400 Message-ID: <37F29DCF.83E103FA@aspi.net> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:16:31 -0400 From: Carl Petersen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: XFree86 and hosed Bsp/Del keys. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have just used the ports collection to upgrade stable with xfreee 3.3.5. Xfree runs fine but as a result the backspace and delete keys are messed up in some x apps. Motif apps (Netscape, nedit) work fine with expected behavior but xterms and rxvts each exhibit different symptoms. Could someone point me at some documentation which describes how X handles keys and how termcap/terminfo should be setup? The "The Complete FreeBSD" or the handbook have no mention of how this actually works. I have noted that for the console has erase = ^H and an xterm has erase = ^?. Doing 'stty erase ^H' does help but not for the case of rxvt. Does this indicate that the terminfo/termcap files were not setup correctly by the xfree installation.? regards, --Carl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message