From the X-Strikeforce (debian port) page (http://www.debian.org/~branden/) heading xterm and the keyboard.
xterm and the keyboard Debian has modified the key translations that xterm uses to make its behavior more consistent with the Linux virtual console. This has been achieved by setting the following X resource in /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm. *VT100.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string("\177")\n\ <Key>Delete: string("\033[3~")\n\ <Key>Home: string("\033OH")\n\ <Key>End: string("\033OF") The *VT100*backarrowKey was introduced into recent versions of xterm released by XFree86; other versions of xterm will not recognize this resource. See the page for more info. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!