On Fri, 9 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> A little digging around shows that setting the proper resources for
> rxvt should fix this. Here's an excerpt from the man page Resources
> section:
>
> keysym.sym: string
> Associate string with keysym sym (0xFF00 - 0xFFFF).
> It may contain escape values (\b: backspace, \e,
> \E: escape, \n: newline, \r: return, \t: tab, \000:
> octal number) and may enclosed with double quotes
> so that it can start or end with whitespace. The
> intervening resource name keysym. cannot be omitÂ
> ted. This resource is only available when compiled
> with FAKE_RESOURCES.
>
> So, putting the following line in ~/.Xresources should do it
> (assuming /etc/X11/config has the line 'allow-user-resources'):
>
> Rxvt.keysym.Delete: \b
Should this be Rxvt.keysym.Backspace: \b ?
>
> I did this and what do you know, it didn't work. I will say that
> after using xterm exclusively for so long, I was please to see that
> *colors* worked Out Of The Box with rxvt (cool!). I can only assume
> from this exercise that the maintainer of rxvt didn't compile the
> package with FAKE_RESOURCES. However, /usr/doc/rxvt/changelog.debian.gz
> shows:
>
> rxvt (2.18-5) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * Enabled FAKE_RESOURCES and KEYSYM_RESOURCE
>
> -- Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:50:19 -0400
>
> So he *did* make this change. How come it doesn't seem to work then?!
> Being the curious type I had to see it to believe it, so I downloaded
> the source and YUP, he did make this change (sorry for doubting you
> Brian). So I went into the source that actually *reads* these resources
> and here's what I find (*much* to my chagrin). The "fake" xresources
> reading which rxvt does can't understand symbolic keysyms (so what's
> the "sym" for, huh?). It can only understand the hex-numeric value
> of the keysym. The solution is to put the following line in your
> ..Xresources:
>
> Rxvt.keysym.0xFFFF: \b
>
> That's it. For the likewise curious, I found the Delete keysym's value
> in the source itself for rxvt (xdefaults.c):
>
> /*
> * look for something like this (XK_Delete)
> * rxvt*keysym.0xFFFF: "\177"
> */
> # ifdef KEYSYM_RESOURCE
> n = strlen ("keysym");
> if ((str [n] == '.') && !strncmp (str, "keysym", n))
> {
>
> You can find all the numeric values of keysyms (if you have the X11
> source--and this is why I object to rxvt only taking the numeric
> values) in /usr/X11R6/include/X11/keysymdef.h. I hope I've redeemed
> myself for my earlier misinformation. mea culpa.
My backspace does what it should but delete just beeps at me.
What does mea culpa mean?
--Rick
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