Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
Oz Dror wrote: On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character the backspace character defaults to the delete character how can I change this default. Add... xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSpace ... to the top of your ~/.xsession, or type it from within an (x|e|rxv)term to quickly test it. At least that work(s|ed) for me. HTH, etc. Ciao, Kris -- Kris | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GeekCode v3.1 GIT dpu C UL+++ L++ E--- N+++ h++ !r PGP++ tv++ o-- K- w O M V- PS PE- Y+ t+ 5+ X+ R- DI+ e b y-- D s:- G A--- P+ W-
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
Hello Brian, On 06-Aug-99, you wrote: BS *- On 6 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about Re: backspace character does BS not exists in xterm, BS Hello J.H.M., BS BS On 02-Aug-99, you wrote: BS BS JD\ On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote: JD\ BS On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character BS JD\ BS JD\ The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies BS on JD\ the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't BS have a JD\ XkbDisable in /etc/X11/XF86Config. JD\ BS JD\ HTH, BS JD\ Ray BS BS Hi, BS BS I tried commenting this entry out of my XF86Config and on BS reloading, the keyboard mapping was unusable. I eventually found BS the return key was now my R-alt key, and the two lower alpha rows BS on the keyboard were mapped six keys to the left, amongst the BS random mappings on the rest of the keyboard. I couldn't find the BS right combination to get to a console and as xdm was installed, the BS system went straight into X leaving me with a completely unusable BS system. Fortunately I'm just using this system to learn with so I BS didn't mind having to completely re-install from scratch to get BS around this. A rather drastic solution though. BS BS Any hints or tips on what should be done before enabling the X BS Keyboard Extension? BS BS BS Ouch!! How do you boot into linux? There are several ways to avoid a BS reinstall. One way to fix this is to boot into single user BS mode(which won't start anything up) and then edit the config file. BS If you use lilo to boot you can get the lilo prompt and enter your BS label for linux followed my 'single', i.e. BS BS LILO: linux single BS BS If you use loadlin just add single to the loadlin command line. BS Another option is to boot with the Debian rescue disk, hit enter at BS the boot: prompt and wait for the color selection dialog to come up. BS Then hit alt-f2 and enter. Now mount your linux partition that has BS the config file on it and edit it with ae editor that is on the BS rescue floppy. BS BS There is certainly no need to reinstall the os for a broken config BS file. BS The 'other' problem is that when I install, I'm told that neither boot from HD or boot floppies are implemented on Amiga. I have to load from AmigaDOS - perhaps there are some params I could change there. As I said though, for me, it wasn't a problem - more like revision or reading a book again with foreknowledge, but I thought a warning might not go amiss as this doesn't seem to be 'common' knowledge. Regards, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
I believe if you choose the keyboard type correctly when you do XF86Config, the key mapping should be set right basically. So I would check the XF86Config, make sure the keyboard selection is OK. You may also look at the file .Xmodmap in /etc/X11 directory ( It may not in the same directory on your machine). It is a system wide modmap file. It has the key mapping information. or you can create your own .Xmodmap at your home directory. The file Xinitrc should call it when xstarts. Unfortunately, setting keymapping is far complicated. type man xmodmap for how to manually set key mapping. Good Luck Daniel -Original Message- From: Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 2:45 PM Subject: Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm, *- On 6 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm, Hello J.H.M., On 02-Aug-99, you wrote: JD\ On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote: JD\ On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character JD\ JD\ The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies on JD\ the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't have a JD\ XkbDisable in /etc/X11/XF86Config. JD\ JD\ HTH, JD\ Ray Hi, I tried commenting this entry out of my XF86Config and on reloading, the keyboard mapping was unusable. I eventually found the return key was now my R-alt key, and the two lower alpha rows on the keyboard were mapped six keys to the left, amongst the random mappings on the rest of the keyboard. I couldn't find the right combination to get to a console and as xdm was installed, the system went straight into X leaving me with a completely unusable system. Fortunately I'm just using this system to learn with so I didn't mind having to completely re-install from scratch to get around this. A rather drastic solution though. Any hints or tips on what should be done before enabling the X Keyboard Extension? Ouch!! How do you boot into linux? There are several ways to avoid a reinstall. One way to fix this is to boot into single user mode(which won't start anything up) and then edit the config file. If you use lilo to boot you can get the lilo prompt and enter your label for linux followed my 'single', i.e. LILO: linux single If you use loadlin just add single to the loadlin command line. Another option is to boot with the Debian rescue disk, hit enter at the boot: prompt and wait for the color selection dialog to come up. Then hit alt-f2 and enter. Now mount your linux partition that has the config file on it and edit it with ae editor that is on the rescue floppy. There is certainly no need to reinstall the os for a broken config file. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
If you floppy device (fd0) is bootable (It is default setting on most BIOS), you could use Linux Rescue Boot Disk as Brian said. It works. If you floppy device (fd0) could not be booted, you may check the user manual of your machine and see how to reconfigure boot setting of BIOS. You must set floppy device to be the primary boot. Daniel -Original Message- From: Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, August 06, 1999 9:44 PM Subject: Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm, Hello Brian, On 06-Aug-99, you wrote: BS *- On 6 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about Re: backspace character does BS not exists in xterm, BS Hello J.H.M., BS BS On 02-Aug-99, you wrote: BS BS JD\ On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote: JD\ BS On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character BS JD\ BS JD\ The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies BS on JD\ the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't BS have a JD\ XkbDisable in /etc/X11/XF86Config. JD\ BS JD\ HTH, BS JD\ Ray BS BS Hi, BS BS I tried commenting this entry out of my XF86Config and on BS reloading, the keyboard mapping was unusable. I eventually found BS the return key was now my R-alt key, and the two lower alpha rows BS on the keyboard were mapped six keys to the left, amongst the BS random mappings on the rest of the keyboard. I couldn't find the BS right combination to get to a console and as xdm was installed, the BS system went straight into X leaving me with a completely unusable BS system. Fortunately I'm just using this system to learn with so I BS didn't mind having to completely re-install from scratch to get BS around this. A rather drastic solution though. BS BS Any hints or tips on what should be done before enabling the X BS Keyboard Extension? BS BS BS Ouch!! How do you boot into linux? There are several ways to avoid a BS reinstall. One way to fix this is to boot into single user BS mode(which won't start anything up) and then edit the config file. BS If you use lilo to boot you can get the lilo prompt and enter your BS label for linux followed my 'single', i.e. BS BS LILO: linux single BS BS If you use loadlin just add single to the loadlin command line. BS Another option is to boot with the Debian rescue disk, hit enter at BS the boot: prompt and wait for the color selection dialog to come up. BS Then hit alt-f2 and enter. Now mount your linux partition that has BS the config file on it and edit it with ae editor that is on the BS rescue floppy. BS BS There is certainly no need to reinstall the os for a broken config BS file. BS The 'other' problem is that when I install, I'm told that neither boot from HD or boot floppies are implemented on Amiga. I have to load from AmigaDOS - perhaps there are some params I could change there. As I said though, for me, it wasn't a problem - more like revision or reading a book again with foreknowledge, but I thought a warning might not go amiss as this doesn't seem to be 'common' knowledge. Regards, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
Hello J.H.M., On 02-Aug-99, you wrote: JD\ On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote: JD\ On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character JD\ JD\ The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies on JD\ the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't have a JD\ XkbDisable in /etc/X11/XF86Config. JD\ JD\ HTH, JD\ Ray Hi, I tried commenting this entry out of my XF86Config and on reloading, the keyboard mapping was unusable. I eventually found the return key was now my R-alt key, and the two lower alpha rows on the keyboard were mapped six keys to the left, amongst the random mappings on the rest of the keyboard. I couldn't find the right combination to get to a console and as xdm was installed, the system went straight into X leaving me with a completely unusable system. Fortunately I'm just using this system to learn with so I didn't mind having to completely re-install from scratch to get around this. A rather drastic solution though. Any hints or tips on what should be done before enabling the X Keyboard Extension? Regards, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
Hello J.H.M., On 02-Aug-99, you wrote: JD\ On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote: JD\ On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character JD\ JD\ The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies on JD\ the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't have a JD\ XkbDisable in /etc/X11/XF86Config. JD\ JD\ HTH, JD\ Ray Hi, I tried commenting this entry out of my XF86Config and on reloading, the keyboard mapping was unusable. I eventually found the return key was now my R-alt key, and the two lower alpha rows on the keyboard were mapped six keys to the left, amongst the random mappings on the rest of the keyboard. I couldn't find the right combination to get to a console and as xdm was installed, the system went straight into X leaving me with a completely unusable system. Fortunately I'm just using this system to learn with so I didn't mind having to completely re-install from scratch to get around this. A rather drastic solution though. Any hints or tips on what should be done before enabling the X Keyboard Extension? Regards, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
*- On 6 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm, Hello J.H.M., On 02-Aug-99, you wrote: JD\ On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote: JD\ On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character JD\ JD\ The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies on JD\ the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't have a JD\ XkbDisable in /etc/X11/XF86Config. JD\ JD\ HTH, JD\ Ray Hi, I tried commenting this entry out of my XF86Config and on reloading, the keyboard mapping was unusable. I eventually found the return key was now my R-alt key, and the two lower alpha rows on the keyboard were mapped six keys to the left, amongst the random mappings on the rest of the keyboard. I couldn't find the right combination to get to a console and as xdm was installed, the system went straight into X leaving me with a completely unusable system. Fortunately I'm just using this system to learn with so I didn't mind having to completely re-install from scratch to get around this. A rather drastic solution though. Any hints or tips on what should be done before enabling the X Keyboard Extension? Ouch!! How do you boot into linux? There are several ways to avoid a reinstall. One way to fix this is to boot into single user mode(which won't start anything up) and then edit the config file. If you use lilo to boot you can get the lilo prompt and enter your label for linux followed my 'single', i.e. LILO: linux single If you use loadlin just add single to the loadlin command line. Another option is to boot with the Debian rescue disk, hit enter at the boot: prompt and wait for the color selection dialog to come up. Then hit alt-f2 and enter. Now mount your linux partition that has the config file on it and edit it with ae editor that is on the rescue floppy. There is certainly no need to reinstall the os for a broken config file. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
[snip] leaving me with a completely unusable system. Fortunately I'm just using this system to learn with so I didn't mind having to completely re-install from scratch to get around this. A rather drastic solution though. [snip] Ouch!! How do you boot into linux? There are several ways to avoid a reinstall. One way to fix this is to boot into single user mode(which That, too, is overkill. Just press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to a virtual console where getty is waiting to log you in. By default, you have 6 vc's, which you can reach by pressing alt-F1 through alt-F6 (use ctrl-alt in X), and X starts at vc 7. (And yes, you can have more than one X session). I think you get 64 vc's as a Linux kernel default; for more, you must recompile the kernel. I think Debian's installation scripts mention something about this when you install. If they don't, they should.
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
*- On 6 Aug, Samuel R. Scarano wrote about Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm, [snip] leaving me with a completely unusable system. Fortunately I'm just using this system to learn with so I didn't mind having to completely re-install from scratch to get around this. A rather drastic solution though. [snip] Ouch!! How do you boot into linux? There are several ways to avoid a reinstall. One way to fix this is to boot into single user mode(which That, too, is overkill. Just press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to a virtual console where getty is waiting to log you in. Read his post again. He said he couldn't find the correct keys with the keymap all out of wack to switch to a console. *- On 6 Aug, Lee Elliott wrote about Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm, the keyboard. I couldn't find the right combination to get to a console and as xdm was installed, the system went straight into X -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:39:17PM -0700, Oz Dror wrote: On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character the backspace character defaults to the delete character how can I change this default. you can define your backspace character with stty erase ^vkey if have this in my .bashrc/.bash_profile if [ $TERM = xterm-debian ]; then stty erase fi ^? is generated by pressing strg v and then backspace HTH robert -- in a world without fences, who needs gates? -- das $yndikat lebt -- Abteilung Linux --
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
xkeycaps will let you redifine any of the keys. Bob On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:39:17PM -0700, Oz Dror wrote: On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character the backspace character defaults to the delete character how can I change this default. Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
Actually it works fine in xterm, but it is converted to the DELETE character in applications that use ncurses -Oz Robert Pintarelli wrote: On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:39:17PM -0700, Oz Dror wrote: On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character the backspace character defaults to the delete character how can I change this default. you can define your backspace character with stty erase ^vkey if have this in my .bashrc/.bash_profile if [ $TERM = xterm-debian ]; then stty erase fi ^? is generated by pressing strg v and then backspace HTH robert -- in a world without fences, who needs gates? -- das $yndikat lebt -- Abteilung Linux -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: backspace character does not exists in xterm,
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 15:39:17 -0700, Oz Dror wrote: On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character The consistent keyboard behaviour implementation for X relies on the use of the X Keyboard Extension. Make sure you don't have a XkbDisable in /etc/X11/XF86Config. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
backspace character does not exists in xterm,
On xterm I have to type crtl-h to generate the backspace character the backspace character defaults to the delete character how can I change this default. Thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126
