backspace and delete keys behavior

[Peter Ryan]

I've got the same thing on the 2 machines i am experimenting
with.  I am new and thought it was a standard feature :) 

I also defined a standard US 101 keyboard.

Makes me think there is a setting or choice at installation that
deals with this, rather than having to patch something.

I counted my keys - there are 101. It looks as much like
a standard US keyboard as anything else I have.

My XF86Config file section for the keyboard contains
	Identifier "Keyboard0"
	Driver "keyboard"
	option "XkbModel" "pc101"
	option "XkbLayout" "us"

Could someone who this does not happen to tell me what
is different in their file.

I am running freeBSD 4.10 RELEASE

Thanks
Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mark Ovens
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 20:21
> To: Mariano Guadagnini
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: backspace and delete keys behavior
> 
> Mariano Guadagnini wrote:
> > Hi guys, I am new to Freebsd (after years of linux) and, althought 
> > system installation and configuration was quite seamlessly, I've an 
> > issue with the delete key of my keyboard (101 keys us layout): In 
> > xterm, the backspace key works ok, but when I press del, it 
> prints the 
> > "~" character, instead of deleting .  I have read it has 
> something to 
> > do with keyboard layout config, but I couldn't find out how 
> to fix it. So, any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks, (and forgive my poor english)
> > 
> 
> Add this to ~/.Xdefaults
> 
> XTerm*vt100.translations: #override \n\
>         <Key>Delete: string(0x04) \n
> 
> which maps Ctrl-D to the DEL key, then run
> 
> % xrdb < ~/.Xdefaults
> 
> to implement it (in the current X session).
> 
> Note that this won't change the behaviour in the current 
> xterm, but will in any new ones you open.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
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