Markus, Thanks soooooooooooooooooooo much! I didn't even think to look in the global resource file.
Paul Serice --------------------- Markus M. Schneider wrote: > > Paul Serice wrote: > > > > >From everything I've read in the HOWTO and in the mini-HOWTO and > > in the Motif HOWTO and the Netscape FAQ section on this, everyone > > seems to have trouble getting BackSpace to work properly with > > Netscape. > > > > I have just the opposite problem: Delete doesn't work. > > > I do not have a ~/.motifbind file. To my knowledge, I do not > > have any entries in ~/.Xresources which would modify the way > > Motif works. > > I am using communicator 4.03 and had also this problem. I found > however that there was the following in the /etc/X11/Xresources > file from the installation: > > ! /etc/X11/Xresources > ! > ! This is the global Xresources file. It is used by both xdm and xinit. > > ! > ! Fix Motif client handling of backspace/delete > ! > *XmText.translations: #override\n\ > <Key>osfDelete: delete-previous-character() > *XmTextField.translations: #override\n\ > <Key>osfDelete: delete-previous-character() > > Now this fix seams to do just the opposite what we want. Therfore > I've commented it out. After restarting the X-Server and netscape > the problem was solved. Perhaps one can avoid the server restart > when substituting delete-previous-character() by > delete-next-character() above, executing "xrdb -merge > /etc/X11/Xresources" and restarting netscape. > > Hope this will be of some help, > > Markus. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

