[5957] in testers
9.3 solaris keymappings lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Jun 18 14:32:06 2004
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:31:59 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200406181831.i5IIVxPb014840@multics.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Under 9.3, the backspace key sends the Backspace keysym, and the Del
key sends the Delete keysym (as they should), but in an xterm,
the Backspace keysym generates a ^H rather than a ^?.
What has changed to cause this?
Also, Meta-f and Meta-b no longer work in tcsh in an xterm,
just producing plain b and f instead of moving forward and back
by one word. Control-[ b and Control-[ f work though, but are
darned annoying to type.
Curiously, in a gnome-terminal, Backsapce sends a ^? and Del
sends a ^[[3~. In a tcsh, meta-b moves back a word, but meta-f
launches the file menu (*SIGH*).
This is with no xmodmapping, no XUSERFILESEARCHPATH (or the like),
and no LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Because gnome-terminal is such a pig, I do think it's worth making sure
xterm works right, even though I realize it is not the default choice
for most people.
--jhawk
