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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!geh From: geh@netcom.com (Greg Holdren) Subject: Backspace problems with Xfree86-2.0 Message-ID: <gehCKDD7J.HoG@netcom.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 02:21:19 GMT Lines: 49 I'm running NetBSD-0.9 and XFree86-2.0 which is installed and working fine the way I have it now except for one problem. The backspace key does not work correctly under XFree86. It works fine in text mode before the X server is started up. I had a problem with the BS key also until I added the "stty erase \^h" line in my root .profile file. I have the same line installed in the /etc/csh.profile file which if I understand correctly is where xterm reads the .profile file from. Correct? This is what I have in my $HOME/.profile and /etc/csh.profile files: stty erase \^h kill \^u eof \^d echoe After X is started up and I do a stty -a to get the stty settings I get: lflags: -echoe cchars: erase = ^? Now if I manually enter the stty line in each window the BS key functions the way I want it to, i.e. move the cursor back a character and erasing it. When I do a stty status agian I get: lflags: echoe cchars: erase = ^H which is what I expected it to show in the first place. Sounds like I'm putting the "stty ....." line in the wrong file or its getting override by another stty command somewhere else. What file should it go in so that each xterm window will read it? Any other clue as to whats wrong? Thanks Greg Holdren geh@netcom.com gregh@hprnd.rose.hp.com