From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 23:39:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEFC716A400 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:39:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 907E113C442 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:39:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hymn07.u.washington.edu (hymn07.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.53]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l1SNdgD5029840 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:39:42 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn07.u.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l1SNdfGr026200 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:39:41 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.55.52.4] by hymn07.u.washington.edu via HTTP; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:39:41 PST Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:39:41 -0800 (PST) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070228203749.GA25931@saltmine.radix.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.2.28.152433 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='SUPERLONG_LINE 0.05, NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: Backspace key "<-" not mapping to ^H X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:39:42 -0000 On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:33:54AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> Jordan Gordeev wrote: >>> Gary Kline wrote: >>>> I'm not sure whether this just in Ubuntu or in the Gnome desktop > ... >>>> servers. I thought I'd ask here before I dig into this. I think >>>> a new xterm was recently updated in ports; not sure if tat is a >>>> factor or not. > > no (I don't recall making changes in that area). > >>> See stty(1) and termios(4). You should modify the erase or erase2 values. > > reasonable (Ubuntu uses Debian packages iirc, which makes it use DEL, > FreeBSD uses BS for erase, etc). > >> The terminal settings available from gnome (if you open up an xterm / >> Gnome terminal shell using the Terminal command under the menu) has > > gnome-terminal isn't xterm (OP isn't making that distinction either). > > xterm has menu settings which can change the assignment of BS/DEL to the > "backspace" key (unlike gnome-terminal, it has a manpage describing these > details ;-). > > -- > Thomas E. Dickey > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net You can set the default terminal in gnome to be xterm instead of Gnome Terminal. Gnome then wraps xterm in a program they call "Terminal" which you can setup to your liking using the preferences accessible from the menu. That's what I meant. Just relaying my experience because I had a similar problem recently with Suse. -Garrett