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From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Going insane with X
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Hi all,

I have one of those questions that you hate to ask because
you know it's in a FAQ or manpage somewhere, but I have
looked feverishly and have not drummed up the right answer.

My problems is this.  I want the tradtional behavior of
the backspace key.  That is, delete the character at point
and move point back one character.  My xterm DTRT, but
programs like Netscrape and some Motif programs that I am
working on do not.  In these broken instances, the Backspace
key == the Delete key (delete the character at point).

I have tried several X-servers (XF86_SVGA and Xaccel) and
the only one that seems to DTRT is the box that has Xaccel
on it.  I don't know why this would make a difference, but
I can't find another difference between the boxes that do
work and the ones that don't.

BTW, I have run 'dumpkeys' in all cases and the output looks
identical.  If anyone could find it in their heart to
provide some hints, I would be very grateful.

Most humbly,

Steve