This solved the problem. It was not limited to just Redhat. It is something of a recurring problem. I had it in Slackware 4.0 but not in 7.x then again in 8.0. go figure.
Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:06:50 -0500 (EST) From: John Vu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 5 as backspace It's a problem solely, if I remember correctly, in RedHat based distros of linux. As one replier in the list said, in /etc/X11/Xmodmap file, there's an entry that says keycode 22 = Backspace--this is not a fix, it's actually the bug that causes this problem. For me, rather than take out the nasty line and be rid of it completely, all I did was made a .Xmodmap file in my home directory and in it I had the following entry: keycode 22 = 5 percent And at the command line, I typed the following to get it to work immediately (if you can't get the number 5 to actually appear at the commandline, try to do a copy and paste of a 5 from some text file--I usually get the cut and paste to work by highlighting what I want to copy and using the middle mouse button to paste): xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = 5 percent" That should fix it, let me know if it doesn't work and I'll try to help you out. John P.S. Perhaps, if you have time and if the fix works, please post this to the VNC mailing list since I'm not subscribed to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
