Re: Backspace is not backspace


Subject: Re: Backspace is not backspace
From: Brian Sammon (bsammon@yifan.net)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2000 - 05:23:17 CST


> >I can't seem to get the backspace key to do a backwards delete. It will
> only do
> >a forward delete.
> >This happens whether I start abiword from an xterm, where backspace is
> >abackspace, or from the gnome menu bar.

One possible way to fix this would be to feed the following line to xmodmap:
        keycode 22 = BackSpace
To test this you could use xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
If that works, you probably would want to add it to the appropriate .Xmodmap
file.

Another think to try feeding to xmodmap would be
        keysym Delete = BackSpace

Also, if this causes problems with xterm, the following lines in a .Xdefaults
or .Xresources file should help:
xterm*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
        <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7F)



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