Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: > > Hi, > > I've already asked this, and I'm sure someone must be having the > same problem... > > No matter how I set the backspace in X11, it won't work under rxvt + > some ncurses program, for example, pine. At some point the entry in > /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt was changed, and the backspace stopped working. The > change isn't documented in the Debian changelog, it just says "Munged > rxvt entry a bit more", and also makes reference to an update to the > terminfo database... > > xterm does work, and infocmp says: > > comparing rxvt to xterm. > comparing booleans. > comparing numbers. > colors: -1:8. > pairs: -1:64. > comparing strings. > hpa: NULL, '\E[%i%p1%dG'. > kend: '\E[4~', '\E[F'. > khome: '\E[1~', '\E[H'. > kmous: NULL, '\E[M'. > vpa: NULL, '\E[%i%p1%dd'. > > I don't see anything relevant here. There are far more differences > between the entry that worked and the one that doesn't. > > I have: > > ii ncurses-base 1.9.9g-6 > ii rxvt 2.20-8 > > The only thing I see that may be relevant is that xterm does use > libncurses and rxvt doesn't. I don't think rxvt is broken... it worked > before... the problem is, I don't know before what. Also, I don't want > to blindy move the old entry over the new one, because I see there are > other differences between them and some of them are indeed good. > > Thank you very much in advance (I mean it, this is getting annoying) > > Marcelo Magallón
Man, this problem has come up on this list how many times now? Hooooooweeee! (I'm not frustrated at you Marcelo.) Isn't it time we had a decent search engine on the debian-user archives or some help database that people could look into? Anyway Marcelo, add this to your ~/.Xresources file (and make sure that you have 'allow-user-resources' in /etc/X11/config). Rxvt.keysym.0xFFFF: \b If that doesn't work let me know, but it solved the problem for me and many others. This is better than switch your whole X keymap. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
