[5962] in testers
Re: 9.3 solaris keymappings lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jun 18 18:28:51 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:28:46 -0400
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 14:31, John Hawkinson wrote:
> 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?
As jhawk discovered and reported to me through side channels, what has
changed is that the /usr/openwin xterm app-defaults are no longer hacked
up. A user with standard dotfiles will not see a different during a
regular login, but one could notice a different in a root login, or
during a terminal login (because the standard cshrc is only run in the
shell within the xterm, so the xterm itself doesn't see the
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH variable).
Bob, can you add a hack to MIT-ws to take care of this?
