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From: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X-windows quality
Date: 25 Jan 1997 03:34:50 GMT
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In article <5c5uv8$oir@newshost.lanl.gov>,
crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) writes:
> And I agree with the comments about the ugliness of Motif. One of
> the biggest warts is the refusal of some Motif applications to let
> me use ^H (CTL-H) as the character kill character. I hate having
> to reach for special buttons along the edge of the keyboard when I
> can type ^H without leaving the home keys. There may be a way to
> make it behave but, for some applications, I haven'g figured out
> how.
Motif builds on Xt. You control the translations exactly the same
way you do with any Xt widget. XmText and XmTextField are the widgets
you want to add your ^H mapping to.
-john