Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:05:33 +0000 From: Rob <drifter@stratos.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BACKSPACE v. DELETE Message-ID: <19990324220533.A41467@stratos.net>
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Hi guys,
I got a puzzle here. I'm having problems with getting my xterms
to properly interpret my BACKSPACE (^H) character as the erase character.
It gets kind of complicated, and I'll try to be brief. I'm using KDE
as my desktop manager.
o When I log in through character-based getty/login and then use
`startx &' from the command line, launching xterm from KDE works
fine. An `stty -a | grep erase' reveals that my erase key is
properly set to ^H.
o But when I launched either kvt or konsole under KDE under the
above circumstances, an `stty -a | grep erase' shows that erase
is set to ^?.
Okay, so it has to do with the KDE terminals, right? Except:
o When I log in through kdm, both kvt and konsole behave as previous
described.
o But, unfortunately, under xterm the erase key is ALSO set to
^?.
So, the method of starting my X session is, apparently, a
factor as well.
I know that child processes inherit stty settings, so when I log in
with a character-based terminal (and erase is properly set to BACKSPACE),
a `startx' allows my X session and all of its children to properly
inherit the settings. So, this is what I figured:
o The getty/login processes sets stty erase to ^H and kdm sets it
to DELETE. So, if you launch X-windows with startx, you inherit
^H and from kdm DELETE.
o kvt and konsole are overriding default terminal settings (yet I
can't figure out how to set either KDE terminal emulators to
the proper defaults. They only provide options to convert a BACKSPACE
to DELETE.)
So, how do I solve this problem, so all graphical terminals have the
proper settings by default without resulting to a complex series of aliases
and configuration files?
Launching these terminals by default doesn't read .profiles (or
.zprofiles). I tried `stty erase ^H' in my xsession, but that doesn't
work. I tried logging in with different desktop/window managers and
still have the same problem.
I looked at login.conf to get some clues, but could find nothing there.
Is there anywhere that I missed?
-Rob
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