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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: xmodmap, and various  questions.
Date: 17 Feb 1994 01:35:29 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <IhLkz6e00Voq42SEgR@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Bliksem R Tobey  <bt2a+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>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,

Hmm, I use this in my .xmodmap (from Jordan) and it's worked fine for
me for a long time.

No guarantees, Your milage may vary.
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!
! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L
!
keycode	22 = Delete
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Nate

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