On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:47:50PM -0400, William W. Austin wrote: > OK, I'm evil: I prefer xterm for everyday use ;-> > > Anyway after upgrading to 8.0, I discovered that (on my main box at home, > anyway) running EVERYTHING in default mode (metacity, I suppose ... Gnome > desktop, blucurve theme, etc.), the delete key could not me made to send a > delete char (0xff). > > The "Main Options > Delete is DEL" button is checkable but does not produce the > expected result. Sadly I also want to have a working backspace key, so I also > have "Main Options > Backarrow Key (BS/DEL)" checked as well. (It works as > expected.) > > I tried experimenting with the possible combinations here and nothing could get > the delete key to send the delete char -- it persists in sending the sequence, > "<ESC>[3~" no matter what I do. > > Interestingly if I switch to KDE or every other WM I have tried so far, this > problem does NOT occur and I can have working Backspace and Delete keys. > > I have looked through many of the docs so far (and RTFM'ed, of course) and have > not found it yet. Copying over a binary of xterm from a 7.3 machine does not > change the situation (tested that), and I am wondering if this is documented > somewhere as an inalterable "enhancement" (Yeah, it was there before, but a > judicious application of x-resources in my .Xdefaults file cured the problem. > But this apparently no longer works). > > Even compiling and installing xkeycaps doesn't help ... sigh. > > Anyone have a solution on this one? > > Thanks in advance > > Bill Austin waustin@att.com > you can fix it with the stty or tset command. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@trinity.edu
