Re: How to make backspace key be backspace?

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From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 00:00

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jk@cs.curtin.edu.au (John Krivitsky) writes:

: My Linux system has a really annoying problem - the backspace key maps to the
: delete key. In an Xterm I can use `stty erase ^?', but in any other X program
: it's still the delete key.

Opinions are divided about what should be done.
Read the Keyboard HOWTO and the Backspace HOWTO for a lot of details.

[One possible answer is: make sure that things are as you want them
on the console, and when X is booted it mimicks the console keymap
as far as possible. On the console you use loadkeys.]

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From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: How to make backspace key be backspace?
Date: 1996/05/26
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