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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Backspace Key for Xterm??
Message-ID: <9010130435.AA12032@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 90 04:35:24 GMT
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> I like to find out how to configure Xterm to use the Delete or
> Backspace correctly when connecting to a VAX system.
> I have tried to use xmodmap but without any success.
> Is there any resource that can be set on xterm to allow selection of
> the delete or backspace key?

You don't say what your problem is.  Specifically, in what way does
what you expect differ from what actually happens?  And when you "tried
to use xmodmap", what precisely did you feed it and how did it affect
things?

(It is, in general, utterly impossible to help when all you say is "it
doesn't work".  Be specific!  "I typed `xprogram -fg gray' and it said
`xprogram: color "gray" too boring to use'."  Now *that's* a useful
problem statement, as opposed to, say, "xprogram's -fg option is
broken".)

As I understand xterm, if a key is set to the Delete keysym, it should
generate a delete character, and if it's set to a BackSpace keysym, it
should generate a backspace character.  Is this not what you're seeing?

					der Mouse

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