Re: wow, I didn't know how difficult this was ( was setting backarrow key value in xterm
Re: wow, I didn't know how difficult this was ( was setting backarrow key value in xterm
- Subject: Re: wow, I didn't know how difficult this was ( was setting backarrow key value in xterm
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 15:23:21 -0700
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Thu, May 01, 2008, R.G. Ball wrote:
>Absolutely no one had anything to suggest for this problem:
This is the first I've seen the post (and I just figured this out
last week myself).
I want the backspace to be ctrl-h as the world other than DEC
uses. There are two lines in my ~/XTerm file that control this:
XTerm*ttyModes: intr ^C erase ^H kill ^U
XTerm*backarrowKeyIsErase: false
The ttyModes line is the one necessary when dealing with Linux
boxes that insist on using ctrl-? (DEL) instead of backspace. I
have recently switched to CentOS from SuSE, and finally bit the
bullet to figure out how to fix this.
I found this while reading the xmodmap documentation while
finally getting around to getting the numeric keypad on my
Microsoft Natural keyboards to do the Right Thing(tm) with the
numeric keypad in ncurses applications when running under OS X
X11 such as vim and python (my ~/.Xmodmap file is attached).
I still have not figured out how to get the ~/.Xmodmap file to be
effective when starting X11 under OS X 10.4.x Tiger as the
xinitrc file does recognize it, but by the time the quartz-wm
starts, it is not longer effective so I have to run xmodmap
manually.
>On [2008-Apr-23] R.G. Ball <email@hidden> wrote:
>> In Tiger's Xll xterm the Main Options list has an item called BackArrow
>> Key (BS/Del) which is checked (selected) by default. I'd like to change
>> that to unchecked but so far my reading of man xterm and playing with my
>> local .Xresources file has not been successful. Can someone please give me
>> the recipe to get this changed? Thanks.
>
>This in the .Xresources file doesn't do it:
I much prefer using the $HOME/XTerm file to .Xresources as it
works at all times, not just at X11 startup, and changes are
found immediately when starting a new xterm.
Bill
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