Subject: Re: delete key on b&w keyboard
From: Evan Read (evan@advcomm.co.nz)
Date: Sun Aug 08 1999 - 20:36:52 MDT
How does one make the xmodmap changes permanent?
THanks
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Jeff Ridder wrote:
> I haven't tried this myself, but I saved the following email to remember to
> try it one day.
>
> > Two days ago, I stumbled into the problem that some others have had
> > where the Delete key and the Del key both act as "Delete" rather than
> > "BackSpace" and "Delete", respectively. This isn't a big deal, as you
> > can fix this in your environment for xterms and such, but the result is
> > that, in X-based windows, such as Netscape or Grip, you cannot delete
> > the characters to the LEFT of the cursor.
> > The proposed solution to this would be to issue the command 'xmodmap -e
> > "keycode 50 = BackSpace"' for non-extended keyboards, and 'xmodmap -e
> > "keycode 59 = BackSpace"' for extended keyboards.
>
>
> Jeff Ridder
> jridder@gci.net
>
> ----------
> >From: Morgan Terrinoni <othello918@earthlink.net>
> >To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> >Subject: Re: delete key on b&w keyboard
> >Date: Sun, Aug 8, 1999, 6:12 PM
> >
>
> > It's very annoying. It's probably something stupid I'm just missing. Anybody?
> >
> >
> >>Morgan,
> >>
> >>I noticed the same thing with my extended adb keyboard. I, too, am
> >>wondering about that.
> >>
> >>Paul
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> >>
> >>
> >>At 6:21 PM 1999/08/03, Morgan Terrinoni wrote:
> >>> I have a B&W G3 with that dinky little apple keyboard that also ships with
> >>> the imac. In Gnome, the delete key doesn't work as it should, or rather
> >>> isn't doesn't work as a backspace. It deletes text if selected, but it
> >>> doesn't do the backwards delete. Any ideas? Thanks.
> >>> Morgan
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