From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 10:00:43 2004 Return-Path: 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 29D0816A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:00:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E33843D49 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:00:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 14616 invoked by uid 89); 30 Jul 2004 10:00:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 30 Jul 2004 10:00:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC25141; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:00:32 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (it.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34361-04; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:00:31 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 320696D; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:00:31 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:00:29 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Message-Id: <20040730130029.3b8e7525@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <410A0E81.9090903@daleco.biz> References: <200407300116.27351.mguadagnini@velocom.com.ar> <410A0E81.9090903@daleco.biz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro cc: Mariano Guadagnini cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backspace and delete keys behavior X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:00:43 -0000 On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 04:01:53 -0500 "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." wrote: > Mariano Guadagnini wrote: > > >Hi guys, I am new to Freebsd (after years of linux) and, althought system > >installation and configuration was quite seamlessly, I've an issue with the > >delete key of my keyboard (101 keys us layout): In xterm, the backspace key > >works ok, but when I press del, it prints the "~" character, instead of > >deleting . I have read it has something to do with keyboard layout config, > >but I couldn't find out how to fix it. So, any ideas? > > > >Thanks, (and forgive my poor english) > > > > > >Mariano Guadagnini > >Argentina > > > > > > what does: > > >echo $TERM > > give you? > > It could possibly be the wrong terminal type --- try the following > at the CLI (depending on which shell)... > > csh/tcsh: > > $setenv TERM xterm-color itetcu@it> /home/itetcu/.dc [12:26:07] 0 % echo $TERM xterm itetcu@it> /home/itetcu/.dc [12:58:58] 0 % setenv TERM xterm-color itetcu@it> /home/itetcu/.dc [12:59:11] 0 % echo $TERM xterm-color itetcu@it> /home/itetcu/.dc [12:59:15] 0 % das~~~~das Where the ~ are made by pressing delete. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"