From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 22 14: 6:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13ADA14EC2 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 14:06:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA17716; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:04:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:04:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Christopher Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backspace in 'screen' In-Reply-To: <37977F81.2924CC7B@thedial.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message