Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete
Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete
- Subject: Re: getting 'Delete' to forward-delete
- From: email@hidden (Dushan Mitrovich)
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:24:20 -0700
Martin Costabel <email@hidden> wrote:
>Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>[]
>> Okay, now things are starting to become a little clearer. As I noted in
>> my reply to Jeremy H. (copy below), neither Xmodmap nor Xresources exists
>> in my HOME directory.
>
> I don't know how you interpreted Harald's answer to your original question:
>
>> + 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
>
> He meant that you should write these lines into those files, which means
> that you create the files if they don't exist.
I copied the existing ones into /etc/X11/xinit, and modified .Xresources,
but couldn't do anything with .Xmodmap because of the
"unable to open display ''"
error message.
> And don't bother with any xinitrc scripts. The one you have from your
> X11 installation will read the two files in your home directory once
> they exist.
- Dushan
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