[17549] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.3.25Tue: zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Mon Feb 14 09:51:45 2000
Message-Id: <200002141451.JAA15258@mint-square.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:50:32 EST."
<200002140650.BAA22183@small-gods.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:51:39 -0500
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> > Backspace doesn't work to delete... must use the "delete" key
>
> Thanks for reporting this. This bug results from a disagreement
> between xterm and the default tty setings in Red Hat Linux. The same
> problem exists on Solaris, and we work around it by providing modified
> xterm app-defaults. We'll probably do something similar for RH-Linux
> soon.
As a point of information, I use the following X resource on my RH 6.1
accounts to get the correct behavior:
XTerm*backarrowKey: false
Just FYI...
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
