Lawrence wrote: > > Markus M. Schneider wrote: > > [cut] > > I am using communicator 4.03 and had also this problem. I found however > > that there was the following in the /etc/X11/Xresources file from the > > installation: > > > > ! /etc/X11/Xresources > > ! > > ! This is the global Xresources file. It is used by both xdm and xinit. > > > > ! > > ! Fix Motif client handling of backspace/delete > > ! > > *XmText.translations: #override\n\ > > <Key>osfDelete: delete-previous-character() > > *XmTextField.translations: #override\n\ > > <Key>osfDelete: delete-previous-character() > > > > Now this fix seams to do just the opposite what we want. Therfore I've > > commented it out. After restarting the X-Server and netscape the problem > > was solved. Perhaps one can avoid the server restart when substituting > > delete-previous-character() by delete-next-character() above, executing > > "xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources" and restarting netscape. > > just commenting out the above four lines is ok. substituting previous > by next won't help. > > Lawrence
Actually, Markus' suggestion of replacing previous by next and running xrdb _did_ work for me. Thanks to Markus' post and the Linux Journal article I've finally, after many years, got most of my favourite applications using delete and backspace correctly :) Evan. -- Evan Thomas Department of Physiology University of Melbourne Parkville, 3052 ph: 9344-4690 fax: 9344-5818 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .