On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:35:42PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote: > -| > -|I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng > -|went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now > -|deletes the next character just like the delete key. I really want it to > -|delete backwards - this is almost as bad as those first heady days when I > -|discovered Emacs! > -| > -|Can't find the way on this - can anyone point me in the right direction ? > -| > -|Thanks for your time > -| > -|Glyn M > > I had the same problem in Netscape and other apps. What I did was > "startx 1>log 2>&log". Then I checked the "log" file. It was full > of errors pointing to "xkbcomp". Based on the reported errors, > as root I did: > > ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp > > and restarted "X" and all has been OK since. I posted a question > earlier on why I had to do this but no one has been able to shed > any light. I feel better now knowing that I'm not the only one > with the "backspace" problem after an update. > > -- > Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA > chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com > Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Thanks for that one. Without this, the xserver 'falls back' to the default Xmodmap, which is in /etc/X11, and which has the proper maps for the Backspace and Delete keys. The only problem is that there are definitions for several keyboards, and ALL of them are commented out. You need to edit this file and uncomment the codes for your particular keyboard. Mike -- Michael Merten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> System Administrator, Raytheon Technical Services Company Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, Louisiana --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Fingerprint: 193B 0966 E9A5 5FFF CF6A CDDF C008 6CA3 4842 82B5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one!" --Alexander Hamilton
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