Bug 23654 - dvorak keyboard layout backspace problem w/xterm
Summary: dvorak keyboard layout backspace problem w/xterm
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-01-09 16:07 UTC by Kevin L. Mitchell
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-06 20:56:11 UTC
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Description Kevin L. Mitchell 2001-01-09 16:07:00 UTC 
I just installed RedHat 7.0 and set about configuring it and was stymied by
what
appeared to be a problem with xterm.  Whenever I pressed backspace, the
code
submitted to xterm was (from memory) ^[[3~, which of course doesn't do
anything
useful.  So I began working through the xterm manpage to find if there's a
resource
that could be the problem.  No luck.  Then I switched the XkbLayout back to
"us",
and lo and behold, it worked.  Further investigation revealed that the key
symbols
associated with <BKSP> in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/dvorak did not
match
those used by /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/us--the dvorak key symbols
were "BackSpace, Delete", whereas the us key symbols were just "BackSpace".
Changing the symbols in the dvorak map fixed the xterm problem.
Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2001-08-24 22:38:57 UTC 
I use a dvorak (soft mapped Happy Hacking) on the 7.0 and 7.1. I can't seem to
reproduce your problem.
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