Very Computer

by **Kang Sun ~{Ko?5** » Wed, 15 Feb 1995 06:31:08

Greetings,

On solaris 2.4 after I started XDM daemon, the console as well
as remote X-terminals are managed by XDM. But the BACKSPACE and DELETE
keys are behaving strangely.

The BACKSPACE key moves the cursor backward, but inside the
buffer, it appends ^H to the command line instead of erasing the
prevous character.

The DELETE key does not move the cursor backward, but actually
it erases the previous character in the buffer.

So is there anyway that one can change the behavior of these
keys? Thank you very much!

-- Kang Sun

by **cjohn ma** » Thu, 16 Feb 1995 00:03:22

Quote:>Greetings,
> On solaris 2.4 after I started XDM daemon, the console as well
>as remote X-terminals are managed by XDM. But the BACKSPACE and DELETE
>keys are behaving strangely.
> The BACKSPACE key moves the cursor backward, but inside the
>buffer, it appends ^H to the command line instead of erasing the
>prevous character.
> The DELETE key does not move the cursor backward, but actually
>it erases the previous character in the buffer.
> So is there anyway that one can change the behavior of these
>keys? Thank you very much!

I have observed the same problem, Solaris 2.4/X11R6pl10. `stty sane`
in your .cshrc will fix the problem. Another annoying thing that
we have noticed is that when xterms are started, you inherit 2 environment
variables, LINES and COLUMNS. When you resize your xterm, these variables
stay the same, and really messes things up like vi and more. Once you
unset the environment variables, they run correctly. If anyone has a
solution for this (other than unsetenv in the .cshrc) please post or
email it.

Quote:>-- Kang Sun

cjohn mace

Very Computer

backspace and delete keys in xterm under XDM behave strangely.

backspace and delete keys in xterm under XDM behave strangely.

backspace and delete keys in xterm under XDM behave strangely.