On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:54:44AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > when typing at an xterm, my backspace key works (it rubs out the last > character) but my left arrow key doesn't (it doesn't move the cursor to the > left by one). > > i know there's a way to fix this, but searching man pages turned up nothing. > can someone help me out? this is very annoying!
Not the solution you want, but you can use "ctrl-B" (think "B"ack). I used to have problems with my Meta keys acting funny when I had the NumLock on in X, but never an arrow key. Rob -- Dinner is ready when the smoke alarm goes off.
