>From what I've been able to discern playing around with this stuff is that
there's different keyboard mapping programs for the console and for X. In
fact there's several, perhaps conflicting, programs for X. I've been
wresting with keyboard mapping for awhile and can't get it to work right.
Are you experiencing this in X or at the console or both?
kf
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
=
= Sorry for the delayed response; I was on vacation. There was a like a
= week's delay between my original post and when it showed up on the list
= . . .
=
= Anyway,
=
= My /etc/sysconfig/keyboard already looks like that.
= That's why it works in the console window, I presume.
=
= Tried to make that clear in the original mail; guess I didn't.
=
= I have worked around it by chaning my stty back to ^C, and mapping my
= SysRq key
= to END, and using XTerm's keyboard mapping to map END to ^C, but this
= seems like
= a really byzantine way to have to go about it.
=
= Any other ideas about what process might be (mis-)translating the darn
= key for me?
=
=
= Ivan wrote:
= >
= > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote:
= > > I've installed MDK 7.1 (from scratch--new hard disk). I was previously
= > > using 7.0.
= > >
= > > The backspace is doing that incredibly annoying Linux thing of acting
= > > like a del key.
= > > Since I use del an interrupt key (so I can map it to SysRq), this is
= > > extremely annoying.
= > >
= > > My /etc/sysconfig/keyboard is setting the Backspace to Backspace, and
= > > thus it works as I want in the console.
= > >
= > > Under X, "xev" shows that backspace generate a backspace, and delete
= > > generates a delete, but they both do the same thing. I've tried running
= > > the International Keyboard program, and not running it.
= > >
= > > This is really getting in my way, I *really* hope somebody can help me!!
= > >
= > > --
= > > "Brian, the man from babble-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
= > > Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org
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= >
= > Have you tried editing your /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file to read
= >
= > BACKSPACE=BackSpace
= >
= > I think that is how it should work. In 7.0 it had different syntax that
= > required it to need the ^H option, so you might try that too. I looked at the
= > startup services as they were starting to see if the boot was actually doing
= > the right thing. The nice thing is that this won't completely disable your
= > system so you can try different things if BackSpace doesn't work.
= >
= > Hope this helps.
= > Ivan
=
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