From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 17:05:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C197B16A421 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:05:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from goodredhat@yahoo.com) Received: from web34008.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34008.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.178.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55E8D43D46 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:05:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from goodredhat@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 75345 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Aug 2005 17:05:44 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=RjDmCpoM0qTlGk5Xg97NevtVkquS5abYKhp91h8dKfIs5kqj50bybTq/i9nvqBk9fIuZNkjFYGUbuttPRAbBlQ5awF1yXm5czi3OYlveIwcq7Zg/ldhm/BXnVJwMMlphi0gIYrcQmTTuCaw1OqTH2Ne1hFAaTubKGzJsCemEE2A= ; Message-ID: <20050830170544.75343.qmail@web34008.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [210.214.81.107] by web34008.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:05:44 PDT Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:05:44 -0700 (PDT) From: manish jain To: freebsd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: changing keyboard behaviour X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:05:45 -0000 hi, i am a freebsd newbie and i love it. i used linux for quite some time and gave it up for many reasons. i want my console's delete key to work as forward delete and not as backspace. can anyone help me out with this small problem ? further, when i press the arrow keys in an xterm, it echoes wierd characters to the xterm. how can i set this right ? i will be glad if somebody has a .inputrc to make keys in freebsd to mean pretty much the same as in linux. thank you manish jain ps : is there any way available to make the console-based Chuck (logo) screensaver work in X ? ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs