Re: Annoying, Anoying Backspace Difficulties


Subject: Re: Annoying, Anoying Backspace Difficulties
From: Geoffrey C Kinnel (Geoffrey.Kinnel@bms.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 14:46:57 MST


Sean Bittinger wrote:
>
> Help! This is getting quite annoying. In X my delete key ceases to work as
> a backspace. In the "regular" CLI it works fine, press it and the letter in
> front of it disappears. However, when I use it in an xterm (or any other
> thing in X that excepts typing), nothing. I have to be in front of the
> letter (forward delete). So annoying. I've tried the xmodmap -e "keycode
> 50 = Backspace" but to no avail. I just get a message stating, "Backspace
> is unrecognized" (something like this at least, get the jist). If I do
> xmodmap -pke | grep Backspace it finds nothing (finds three for delete).
> HELP! This is so annoying. I'm running YDL CS 1.1 on a rev2 B&W G3 and
> using afterstep. Thanks for any and all help that you can give.
>

BackSpace
----^

capital S

Also, on my machine, keycode 50 is the backslash (\) and keycode 59 is
the backspace key.

HTH,
Geoff



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