albert@netcom.UUCP (Albert Hui) (10/13/90)
I like to find out how to configure Xterm to use the Delete or Backspace correctly when connecting to a VAX system. I have tried to use xmodmap but without any success. Is there any resource that can be set on xterm to allow selection of the delete or backspace key? I am running on an HP9000 workstation using Mwm.
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (10/13/90)
> I like to find out how to configure Xterm to use the Delete or > Backspace correctly when connecting to a VAX system. > I have tried to use xmodmap but without any success. > Is there any resource that can be set on xterm to allow selection of > the delete or backspace key? You don't say what your problem is. Specifically, in what way does what you expect differ from what actually happens? And when you "tried to use xmodmap", what precisely did you feed it and how did it affect things? (It is, in general, utterly impossible to help when all you say is "it doesn't work". Be specific! "I typed `xprogram -fg gray' and it said `xprogram: color "gray" too boring to use'." Now *that's* a useful problem statement, as opposed to, say, "xprogram's -fg option is broken".) As I understand xterm, if a key is set to the Delete keysym, it should generate a delete character, and if it's set to a BackSpace keysym, it should generate a backspace character. Is this not what you're seeing? der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
gildea@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea) (10/16/90)
I like to find out how to configure Xterm to use the Delete or Backspace
correctly when connecting to a VAX system....
You are not very specific about what the problem is, what you have
tried, or what behavior you want. You do say you are connecting from
an HP to a Vax, so I'm assuming that you want to use the Backspace key
as Delete, since HP terminals have the Delete key in a very awkward
place.
The simplest fix for the HP keyboard is to use xmodmap to have
Backspace always send the Delete keysym:
keysym BackSpace = Delete
If you want something more specific for your xterms that are connected
to a Vax, you can give them a unique name (in the resource manager
sense) and use a translation resource:
xterm-vax*VT100*Translations: #override<Key>BackSpace: string("\177")
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