>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 01:00:38PM +0000, Richard Melville wrote: >> When I use backspace in the terminal/console and then re-type I get white >> blocking. I'm fairly sure that I installed the patches when I built the >> keyboard package. Any advice? It's really annoying. >> >> Richard
> I suppose white blocks might be a result of a console font which > cannot display the glyph it was asked for. In a unicode font, that > situation ought to show an inverse question mark (black-on-white for > normally white-on-black text), but many fonts cannot do that.>>>>> > > However, that doesn't explain why the backspace isn't effective. > The backspace patch only changes this for a few keymaps which still > gave Backspace instead of Delete - the last time I looked (some > time before 1.15.3, so something might have slipped in), all of > the other keymaps shipped in the package already did this. > > What do you have in /etc/sysconfig/console ? > > ?en Ken -- thanks for the reply. I changed the font setting over the weekend and now it seems to be OK. The problem was the following: typing worked OK, and if I made a typo and wanted to delete with the backspace key, deletion worked OK, however, when I began to type again that's when I saw the white blocking. I know very little about fonts, keymaps, unicode, etc. What I would like to do is set up a unicode environment but I'm not sure how to go about it, although I'll probably only be using an accented "e", an umlaut/diaeresis, and a euro symbol in addition to a uk keymap. The following are the console parameters of /etc/sysconfig/rc.site (I'm not using /etc/sysconfig/console) and I've left my original font setting in, but commented out:- # Console parameters UNICODE=0 KEYMAP="uk" #KEYMAP_CORRECTIONS="euro2" #FONT="default8x16" FONT="lat1-16 -m 8859-1" #LEGACY_CHARSET= Thanks for your help. Richard
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