On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Matthew Myers wrote:

> I am having trouble with my backspace key in X.  It acts as the delete
> key rather than the backspace, deleting characters after the cursor
> rather than backspacing over them. 

Hi,

edit /etc/X11/Xmodmap and put something like this:

keycode 22 = BackSpace
keycode 107 = Delete

You are using Debian 1.3? I have installed Debian 2.0 and it exhibits the
same problem... at least for me. I have to add the above so that I can use
the Backspace and the Delete key. 

regards,

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