From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 26 10:37:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14BB37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:37:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from redhotmomma.ssr.com (ns.ssr.com [199.4.235.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A45843E4A for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:37:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sdb@ssr.com) Received: (qmail 26532 invoked from network); 26 Dec 2002 18:49:14 -0000 Received: from kimchee.ssr.com (199.4.235.5) by ns.ssr.com with QMQP; 26 Dec 2002 18:49:14 -0000 Date: 26 Dec 2002 18:49:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20021226184914.2695.qmail@kimchee.ssr.com> From: Scott Ballantyne To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <20021217162707.2372.qmail@kimchee.ssr.com> (message from Scott Ballantyne on 17 Dec 2002 16:27:07 -0000) Subject: Re: Backspace key under gnometerminal References: <20021217162707.2372.qmail@kimchee.ssr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A couple of weeks ago I wrote: > How does one get consistant behavior of the backspace key in emacs and > gnometerm? I've fed xmodmap > > remove Lock = Caps_Lock > remove Control = Control_L > keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock > keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L > add Lock = Caps_Lock > add Control = Control_L > keysym BackSpace = Delete > > and then > > echo "XTerm*ttyModes: erase " | xrdb -merge > > which has worked for me in other unices and is documented in the > xmodmap man page for freebsd, but no joy. It doesn't work for xterm > either :-( > > Running 4.7-RELEASE for i386. > I received several requests for answers, but no answer. However, the following seems to work here: Set your xmodmap as shown above but don't use gnometerm, use xterm (this also helps if you need utmp to be munged) and incorporate this into your resources db: XTerm*deleteIsDEL: true sdb -- sdb@ssr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message