Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 23:23:23 +0100 (MET)
From: Niklas Edmundsson &lt;nikke@ing.umu.se&gt;
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bad X keybindings.
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Package: xbase
Version: 3.2-1.1

The following lines in /etc/X11/Xresources are unnecessary since they
break the motif-keybindings (netscaoe amongst others). It is clearly
stated in the netscape-faq that you should NOT do this !

!
! Fix Motif client handling of backspace/delete
!
*XmText.translations: #override\n\
      &lt;Key&gt;osfDelete: delete-previous-character()
*XmTextField.translations: #override\n\
      &lt;Key&gt;osfDelete: delete-previous-character()


The lines in /etc/X11/Xmodmap maps the backspace and delete-key correctly.

The quirk with mapping the keymap correctly is that you have to press
Delete to get a backspace in most programs running in an Xterm. This is
because the Backspace-key is mapped to delete in a text-console (see the
keyboard-faq.)

A sollution is to add the following lines to your
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm

.XTerm.VT100.Translations: #override\n\
  &lt;Key&gt;BackSpace: string(0x7F)\n\
  &lt;Key&gt;Delete:    string(0x04)\n\
  &lt;Key&gt;Home:      string(0x01)\n\
  &lt;Key&gt;End:       string(0x05)

This maps the Backspace-key to the Delete-key, the Delete-key to CTRL-D
(yes, it's mapped to delete in most applications, set ignoreeof in tcsh),
the Home-key to CTRL-A, and the End-key to CTRL-E.


These are the settings we are currently using at our institution.


/Nikke

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