Re: kterm question

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:58:16PM -0500, Bruce Bowler wrote:
> not strictly a redhat question, but it's on a RH system :-)
> 
> Please forgive the stupidity of the following question, but I've never
> understood termcap and/or terminfo, and probably never will...
> 
> I have one application (in the metaphorical sense) for which xterm doesn't
> work but kterm works (almost) perfectly.  The one think I can't figure
> out how to do in kterm (which works in xterm) is to map the backspace key
> to perform the same function as the delete key (alternately, please
> retrain my brain to use the delete key instead of the backspace key :-)

See http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html

> I have a launcher set to execute the following, which, from reading
> kterm/xterm man pages should work, but doesn't
> 
> 	/usr/X11R6/bin/kterm -bg white -fg black -geometry 80x46
> 			-xrm'backarrowKeyIsErase:true' 

There should be a space after "-xrm".  Or is that just a copying
error?  If so, what doesn't work?

> Any ideas?
> 
> it's kterm-6.2-0.30, RH8 (up to date, which some RH9 packs), kernel
> 2.4.20-20.8smp
> 
> Thanks!
> Bruce

Cheers,
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