Hi! Some weeks ago you answered me a question (how to make key Backspace work in xterm). It has been working nice since then, but last week I broke something: keys Home, End, and Erase (not sure on its name, it is the one at the left of End) don't work in xterm, and they used to. Erase in fact works like Backspace (erases the character at the left of the cursor and moves the cursos one character to the left) when it used to erase the character at the cursor.
1) Last Tuesday I upgraded my whole system from hamm to slink (frozen) unknowing what I was doing (I just wanted to upgrade xmcd). When it finished, xterm had disappeared. 2) In order to have xterm again, I purged xbase-clients, and xserver-common, and downgraded xbase, xserver-svga, xserver-vga16, xfnt75, xfntbase, and xlib6g to version 3.3.2.3-2. When I finished I had xterm, but it didn't work as expected (altough the Backspace did). 3) I supposed that description of terminal was wrong, checked the dates of /etc/terminfo/*/* and found that they were recent (october or novermber, I think). As my hamm was released in july, I decided to downgrade /etc/terminfo. Thus, I purged ncurses-base, and ncurses-bin (just to be sure) (4.2-2), and removed manually directory /etc/terminfo. Then, I installed version 1.9.9g-8.10 of ncurses 3.4, ncurses3.4-dev, ncurses-base, and ncurses-bin. I checked xterm again and it didn't work well. 4) Dates of /etc/terminfo/*/* were september 98, so I downgraded ncurses-base to CDROM version: 1.9.9g-8.8. Now, my /etc/terminfo/x/xterm is dated 17-july and thus it is the same that Monday last week. Nevertheless, it doesn't work well. I had left two ncurses packages from slink (version 4.2-2): libncurses4, and ncurses-term. Now I think that the problem is not in /etc/terminfo/*/* because: a) In xterm TERM is set to xterm and works badly. b) In my virtual consoles TERM is set to linux and they work perfectly. c) If I start xterm program with "-tn linux" then TERM is set to linux, but the xterm program doesn't work. BTW: I'm writting this message with Netscape and in this program all the keys work well. They also work with other programs like xmcd. I can't check them with other programs since I only use xterm (to work), Nescape (to get connected) and xterm (to listen music). Please, help! I've been a whole week working upseted with xterm and I only can navigate and listen music!! ;-) P.S.: Now I also have checked accented vowels (áéíóú), and ¡I can't get neither them nor other signs in my Spanish keyboard: çñ¡¿ºª. -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34-63864350 SPAIN | Fax: +34-63983385
