From: colm debarra (colm_debarra at domain hotmail.com)
Date: Wed 13 Jun 2001 - 11:45:40 IST
Thanks - the instructions on that site worked very nicely, backspace is now
working as it's supposed to - it was a matter of modifying
/usr/lib/X11/etc/xmodmap.std slightly if anyone was curious.
Thanks for putting me out of my misery !!
Cheers,
Colm
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>From: Dave Airlie <airlied at domain csn.ul.ie>
>To: kevin lyda <kevin at domain suberic.net>
>CC: colm debarra <colm_debarra at domain hotmail.com>, <ilug at domain linux.ie>
>Subject: Re: [ILUG] (no subject)
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:30:00 +0100 (IST)
>
>
> http://www.cc.ic.ac.uk/helpdesk/apriori/15.1044.html
>
>might help..
>
>Dave.
>
>On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, kevin lyda wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:46:47AM -0000, colm debarra wrote:
> > > deletes the one in front which is wwhat the delete key is supposed to
>do.
> > > Can anyone tell me how to fix this, because its making life miserable
>for
> > > me.
> >
> > first see if refection x has some setting with regards to the backspace
> > key. if that doesn't work, use xev to find the keycode backspace emits
> > (run xev, it will pop up a window, mouse over to it, press backspace and
> > see what it's reported as in the xterm you ran xev from). then set that
> > keycode to Backspace. see the xmodmap for how to do that. then you'll
> > want to force kde to run xmodmap with those arguments - i don't use kde
>so
> > i haven't a clue how to make that happen, but i'm sure someone here
>does.
> >
> > kevin
> >
> >
>
>--
>David Airlie, Software Engineer
>http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at domain skynet.ie
>pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
>
>
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