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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bt2a+ From: Bliksem R Tobey <bt2a+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: xmodmap, and various questions. Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 00:44:38 -0500 Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 19 Message-ID: <IhLkz6e00Voq42SEgR@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu This might not be the right board, but here's my problem: I am rnning my system in FreeBSD. I put XFree86 onto it and have been trying to config it for the past couple days. One thing that I can't quite fix completely is my backspace key in xwindows. It originally gave me ^H symbols when I used backspace. I used xmodmap to partially fix the problem. What I mean is that it now will delete the character, but it still prints out a ^H or a ^? character on the command line. Is there a way to get it to delete the character and visually backup at the same time? I then took out the xmodmap from .xinit and put a line in .Xresources that looks like this (they do the same thing I think): XTerm*ttyModes: intr ^c erase^H kill ^u One other problem that I have lies oth in xwindows and in the normal os mode. I would like to be able to scroll through my history of commands, or at least gepeat the last command with the up arrow key. I haven't found where to start with that problem. If anyone has any info, I would appreciate it if they could post a reply or e-mail me. Thanks. bliksem