[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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