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From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] How can I have the backspace key return DEL?
Date: 05 Jun 1994 21:55:24 GMT
Organization: Jordan Hubbard
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In-reply-to: lliu@u.washington.edu's message of 5 Jun 1994 19:30:30 GMT
In article <2st94m$qgu@news.u.washington.edu> lliu@u.washington.edu (Le-Chin Eugene Liu) writes:
I'm using FreeBSD 1.1 Release. In pc3, the backspace key returns DEL
(\177). I'd like to have the same setting for xterm. I edited termcap
and change kb to \177. It didn't work. In xterm, I still get ^H.
Switch from pccons to syscons (see /sys/i386/conf/SYSCONS), then you can
use the `syscons' program to program the backspace key and X will inherit
it.
Of course, this gets a LOT easier in FreeBSD 1.1.5, so perhaps the
thing to do for the short term (for your X sessions only) is to use
the `xmodmap' utility. Do a `man xmodmap'.
Jordan
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