[20317] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.0.26: xterm/dotfiles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Wed May 1 17:02:32 2002
Message-Id: <200205012101.RAA05800@quantum-2.mit.edu>
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@mit.edu>
cc: bugs@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 May 2002 16:54:43 EDT."
<200205012054.QAA22657@opus.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 17:01:09 -0400
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> What's wrong:
> If I take a clean test account, and login with the gnome interface,
> backspace does the right thing, in gnome terminal.
>
> If in the same test account, I choose the "dash interface" menu item,
> and login again, backspace doesn't work right in the xterm I get.
> I see ^?, and ^H actually deletes.
>
> I verified lack of weirdness in the user's dotfiles, and decided on
> a conditional (checking for `machtype` == linux) calling stty in her
> .cshrc.mine, as a temporary fix.
I'd like to note that this is a relatively consistent problem on Linux
systems--backspace in xterms is rather...weird, irrespective of the use
of Gnome.
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
