Re: [SLUG] Stupid Question about the backspace key!

[marty@nospam.supine.com]

> Andre Pang <ozone@nospam.algorithm.com.au> wrote:
> 
> i'm probably opening my trap where i have no idea how things
> really work, but have you tried using xmodmap?  xmodmap -pk will
> print a list of the current keymap; my laptop shows the
> following codes
> 
>      22	  0xff08 (BackSpace)	  
>     107	  0xffff (Delete) 
> 
> which works for me(TM).  i think the numbers are constant no
> matter what sort of keyboard you have.  i'm sure somebody will
> correct me here if i'm wrong :).

i know that the keycodes are right (BS -> 22 and Del ->107) but i haven't looked 
at the output of "xmodmap -pk"...

however most of the how-tos suggested using xmodmap to alter the mapping of 
the keys, but each suggestion i tried didn't seen to work... :(

> if that works, then maybe your particular application (emacs?)
> might be bungling up the keyboard mapping.

fortunately or otherwise, it is a global X problem, not related to any one specific 
application... (ie. console is fine, X is wrong everywhere - from login to mozilla)

later
marty

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