[NCLUG] Re: Backspace

[Gabriel L Somlo]

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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     Gabriel L.  Somlo                   Assistant System Administrator
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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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