Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:39:41 -0800 (PST) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backspace key "<-" not mapping to ^H Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0702281539410.22543@hymn07.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070228203749.GA25931@saltmine.radix.net>
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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
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