Bug 11245 - xinitrc-2.9 contains a new default Xmodmap that breaks some X-terminals
Summary: xinitrc-2.9 contains a new default Xmodmap that breaks some X-terminals
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: xinitrc
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Preston Brown
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: 10603 11355 (view as bug list)
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-05-05 14:55 UTC by Sebastiano Vigna
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-05-30 16:35:37 UTC
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Description Sebastiano Vigna 2000-05-05 14:55:33 UTC 
The xinitrc-2.9 package contains a new default
Xmodmap that has a single assignment---keycode 22 gets assigned
Backspace instead of tilde/grave as usual. As a result, our >20
Tektronix terminals suddenly started to do backspace instead of tilde.
I do not know if this applies to other kind of terminals. The file
was nonexistent as of xinitrc-2.3, but I haven't checked inbetween
versions.

Note that the default X keyboard works flawlessly with Tektronix
terminals. The presence of that Xmodmap file is, at least, debatable.
Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-05-30 16:35:59 UTC 
agreed, we are reverting the inclusion of this file in an xinitrc errata this
week.
Comment 2 Preston Brown 2000-05-30 17:01:59 UTC 
*** Bug 10603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Preston Brown 2000-05-30 18:29:59 UTC 
*** Bug 11355 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 js 2000-06-08 06:58:40 UTC 
Looking forward to this fix. In the meantime, after reading /etc/termcap line 
477-481, I found out that I temporary can use ^I instead of TAB, which should 
solve the STILL UNRESOLVED bug in bug report 11355.
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