Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 80691
Faulty Backspace and Delete key mapping
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98; hahaha-fooled you! This is really Mozilla/5.0 on Linux i686 rv:1.0.1 Gecko/2002103) Description of problem: On the US keyboard mapping the key Backspace is mapped to keysym=Delete and the key Delete is mapped to keysym=Remove. Shouldn't Backspace map to Backspace and Delete to Delete? Other packages have been munged to make this strange mapping work. ncurses - terminfo.src has xterm-redhat instead of xterm-xfree86 just because of strange backspace/delete mapping. It also has munged backspace definition for the linux definition. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. loadkeys us 2. dumpkeys | egrep ' 14| 111' 3. Actual Results: keycode 14 = Delete keycode 111 = Remove Expected Results: keycode 14 = Backspace keycode 111 = Delete Additional info: With a corrected keymap, corrected terminfo, everything works properly, including X/xterm. Even the kernel refers to keycode 111 as Delete, and keycode 14 as Backspace (keyboard.c,pc_keyb.c). Why should the keyboard mappings create an inconsistency?
This is by design. A lot of users expect the functionality of "Delete" when they press "Backspace". Try reversing the two and running a lot of apps. I'm unable to understand what you mean by X/xterm working when you re-map the two. The current mappings seem to WORKFORME.