Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould!njw From: njw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nick Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: XTerm*ttyModes on 7.0 Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 91 16:58:09 GMT References: <1991Feb07.184847.10892@sat.uucp> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Imperial College Mafia, Computing Division. Lines: 23 In-reply-to: lmb@sat.uucp's message of 7 Feb 91 18:48:47 GMT In article <1991Feb07.184847.10892@sat.uucp> lmb@sat.uucp (Larry Blair) writes: > Following the instructions on the man page for xmodmap I added: > > XTerm*ttyModes: erase ^? > > to my .Xdefaults. This doesn't seem to have any effect. Why not? I had this problem in our system for a while. I eventually found out that the problem was due to me sticking the actual control character in the file, instead of the textual version, `^' followed by `?'. It now works fine. [ Standard (!?) X stuff, i.e. distribution libraries & clients, with the 7.0.3 server available from ftp. ] -- Nick Williams. "It's all gone... *Horribly* wrong." njw@doc.ic.ac.uk ... Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 2B7. UK njw@athena.mit.edu ... Project Athena, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139. USA Disclaimer: Any opinions or views you may find hiding in this message are mine: noone else wants them.