On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 09:00, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > I sometimes have problems with my backspace key, frequently when a > program opens from another program with a term. Normally the backspace > key works fine, but when I'm trying to do a search in man, for instance, > I daren't mis-type something, because all I will see is a string of > literal '^H's when I press backspace.
(snip) > I'm using XFree86 4.1 (Debian woody). I've read the docs in > /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz, where it states that there can be > special problems with the backspace key, but I haven't found a solution > for this specific problem of the key mapping apparently being 'lost'. Not sure this is really something for the Blackbox list, but when this happens, have you tried using CTRL-D? Jamin W. Collins
