[5315] in SIPB bug reports
Re: backspace....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Apr 20 23:26:47 1995
To: benleong@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-help@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, infoagents@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Apr 1995 22:52:16 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 23:26:25 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Actually, this has been a minor problem for quite a while.... the
> backspace key doesn't seem to work properly for some X-applications,
> namely Mosaic and Netscape. Instead of deleting characters before
> the carat, the backspace key deletes stuff that comes after. Can
> someone tell me if this can be fixed?
The problem is that XFree86, by default, produces a Delete keysym
instead of a BackSpace keysym when you press backspace. The
app-defaults for Mosaic and Netscape should probably be modified to
map backspace to delete for Linux and NetBSD, but in the meantime, you
can map the backspace key back to Backspace using:
xmodmap -e 'keysym Delete = BackSpace'
(This will also affect the behavior of the Delete key; to get more
specific, you need to use keycodes, and that might vary from keyboard
to keyboard.) Pretty much all programs should treat a BackSpace
keysym correctly, so this should fix your problem for now.
