Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete
Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete
- Subject: Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:22:07 +0200 (CEST)
+ email@hidden (Dushan Mitrovich):
> In my regular Mac OS X Terminal I've managed to get the 'Delete' key
> to perform a forward delete. But in xterm that doesn't work. I
> couldn't find anywhere in Preferences to modify this,
In .Xmodmap in your home directory:
keysym BackSpace = Delete
> nor to be able to specify the font type and size.
In .Xresources in your home directory:
XTerm.vt100.faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
XTerm.vt100.faceSize: 9
change to suit your needs. These are my values; perhaps you don't even
have that font.
> How does one do this?
It is not very Mac-like, as you can see. Very geeky indeed.
You need to restart X11 after these changes.
- Harald
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