From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 31 16:23:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from superman.imag.net (superman.imag.net [207.200.148.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC02337B563 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:23:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from markh@lon.imag.net) Received: from mymachine.imag.net (lon-p55.wwdc.com [207.200.138.56]) by superman.imag.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA06349 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:24:11 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Hendriks Reply-To: markh@lon.imag.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backspace. . . Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:48:25 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00033118500100.00236@mymachine.imag.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Yong Lim wrote: > Hi, > I just installed FreeBSD 4R, Window Maker 6.11 and rxvt 2.72. A curious > problem occurs. Running the default XTerm from inside WM my backspace works > fine as delete for root and users. Running rxvt as users backspace still > works fine as delete. If I su to root from running rxvt as user, backspace > will not work as delete. If I run rxvt as root backspace will not work. > What would cause rxvt to remap the backspace just for root? > Anyone encountered this before? I am searching through the mail archive > at freebsd.org and nothing turn up yet. Are you running the same shell for root as you are running as a user? The backspace key doesn't work in sh, but it does in bash. -- Mark Hendriks markh@lon.imag.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message