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Re: Backspace in X and Netscape question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William J. Smith)
Mon Nov 4 12:57:48 1996

Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 12:49:36 -0500
From: "William J. Smith" <wjs@wang.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
CC: pak@best.com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SGI.3.95.961103143545.23966A-100000@shellx.best.com>
	(message from Prasanth Kumar on Sun, 3 Nov 1996 14:43:18 -0800 (PST))
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> The backspace doesn't work in netscape and
> other applications in X. I used to have a
> similar problem in slackware but don't know
> what I did to fix it.

  I add the following lines to my .Xclients file.  Someday I hope Red Hat
includes something like this in the default X setup.

# map the <BackSpace> key to the [BackSpace] keysym.
xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
# map the <Delete> key to the [Delete] keysym.
xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = Delete"

Bill


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