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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: kbdcontrol & xmodmap
Date: 28 Aug 1996 11:43:45 +0100
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Hi,

I'm having some difficulty with keyboard mappings on my home machine.
I'm running 2.1.5 w/ the X distribution from 2.1.0.  My laptop runs fine
with 2.2-960323-SNAP & the associated X distribution.

On both machines, I have the same .kbd file that I kbdcontrol at startup.
When I do this, I get the same keystroke results - specifically:

anorak:/usr/home/brian $ egrep bs\|del /etc/uk.anorak.kbd 
  014   del    del    del    del    del    del    del    del     O
  035   'h'    'H'    bs     bs     'h'    'H'    bs     bs      C
  070   slock  slock  del    del    slock  slock  del    del     O
  083   bs     bs     bs     bs     bs     bs     bs     bs      N

Both the <-- and the DEL key send 0x7f.

I have no .Xmodmap file in my home directory.

Using X, the keystrokes have the same effect, but display differently.
On the 2.2 system, the cursor rubs out the character before.  On the
2.1.5 system it doesn't (although the "erase" is actually done).

Does anyone know what may be causing this ?  I've tried to tell Xmodmap
to help, but it's already doing what I want - it just doesn't display
correctly.  I've tried exchanging the XKeysymDB files too - no joy.

TIA.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....