[NCLUG] Re: Backspace
Haplo Patryn
haplo at frii.net
Wed Feb 20 18:24:56 MST 2002
You can always try this
stty erase ^H
or
stty erase ^?
depending on you system...
Haplo
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 03:45:30PM -0700, Gabriel L Somlo wrote:
>
> OK, here's another thing you might try and look at: when you're logged in
> at the text console, type 'showkey', then press backspace and delete a
> few times. Wait 10 seconds for the showkey command to return. When you press
> backspace, you should get 14, and when you press delete, you should get
> 111 (at least that's what I'm getting on my pc). Then, do
> 'dumpkeys | grep 14' and you should get the following:
>
> keycode 14 = Delete
> alt keycode 14 = Meta_Delete
> shift alt keycode 14 = Meta_Delete
> control alt keycode 14 = Meta_Delete
>
> Just in case, 'dumpkeys | grep 111' should give you the following:
>
> keycode 111 = Remove
> altgr control keycode 111 = Boot
> control alt keycode 111 = Boot
>
>
> If what you're getting back for backspace isn't matching the above, try
> using loadkeys (man loadkeys, I've never had to use it so I have no idea
> how to do anything with it) to get it fixed.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Gabriel
>
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>
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Rich Young wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 17 February 2002 00:47, Gabriel L Somlo wrote:
> > >Try 'stty sane', this is what usually works for me...
> > >
> > > Gabriel
> >
> > Sadly, this didn't seem to do anything for me. But at least it didn't screw
> > things up royally, like some other ideas I've tried.
> >
> > I have noticed that backspace performs a delete, and delete performs a delete
> > too, in X. But in the console, backspace does nothing (well, it beeps....)
> > and delete still deletes. I found some discussion of this online, but the
> > keyboard files are not where the online docs suggest that they should be
> > (they're talking about Redhat of an unspecified version, probably pre-7.0,
> > and I'm running KRUD 7.2).
> >
> > Right now, I figure I'll spend some more time looking online for solutions.
> > I definitely haven't tapped that resource fully yet. But if anyone has some
> > clues for me, I'll be grateful. Fixing this will be a big part of getting my
> > wife comfortable with linux instead of windows (about which, see my pending
> > email on making linux work for non-techies).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Rich
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