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From: jan@ECHO.CANBERRA.EDU.AU (Jan Newmarch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Better XTERM needed.
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Date: 2 Nov 90 15:44:55 GMT
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> I'd like to come up with a better XTERM than the one that came with my system.
>the backspace key doesn't
> work quite right, etc..

use xev to find out the keycode that gets generated from the backspace key
and then use
    xmodmap -e "keycode whatever-it-was = Backspace"
xterm source comes with the MIT source. I believe it contains a warning:
"here be dragons" - it's been played with so much.

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