On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 05:12:47PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> In X, shift + backspace used to work the same as backspace on its own
> (i.e. delete the previous character), but no longer does so in recent
> -current, most likely following the xkb update.
>
> Does anyone know how to restore the previous behaviour?
>
> I don't have any keyboard-related sections in xorg.conf (only
> a Files section with some old font paths).
>
Yes, new xkeyboard-config broke this behaviour. This patch should help.
I think there is no objection if he gets into a tree.
OK ?
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Alexandr Shadchin
Index: terminate
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RCS file: /cvs/xenocara/dist/xkeyboard-config/symbols/terminate,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p -r1.3 terminate
--- terminate 16 Oct 2011 17:18:57 -0000 1.3
+++ terminate 2 Nov 2011 14:05:02 -0000
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ partial default modifier_keys
xkb_symbols "ctrl_alt_bksp" {
key <BKSP> {
type="CTRL+ALT",
- symbols[Group1] = [ NoSymbol, VoidSymbol, VoidSymbol, VoidSymbol,
Terminate_Server ]
+ symbols[Group1] = [ BackSpace, BackSpace, BackSpace, BackSpace,
Terminate_Server ]
};
};
