So, you're not happy with the information you got. In this case,
there is even more hacking you can do on the Backspace/Delete issue, using
suitable commands that get or set the way X and the console handle
keys.
It could happen that, for some reason, what I said talking about
X is not true, that is, X does
not translate keycode 22 to keysym
BackSpace and keycode 107 to keysym
Delete (or even that, on your particular keyboard, the
keycodes associated to Backspace/Delete
are not 22 and 107). To be sure of that, you need to use
xev, a simple X application that will display the
keycode and keysym associated to the key you press. If anything goes wrong,
there are several ways you can fix the problem: the easy, temporary way is
to use xmodmap, a command that lets you change many
settings related to X keyboard handling. For instance,
xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = Delete" |
will set correctly the keysyms (assuming that 22 and 107 are the correct
keycodes for you). In case you want to do some changes permanently, you can
play with the resources
vt100.backArrowKey,
vt100.translations and
ttyModes of
xterm (and similar terminal applications) in the
configuration file
~/.Xdefaults. One
possibility, for instance, is
XTerm.VT100.Translations: \
<Key>BackSpace: string(0x7F)\n\
<Key>Delete: string("\033[3~") |
You should take a look at the
xterm man page for
more information.
The program that does for the console what xev
does for X is showkeys: it will dump the console
keycodes of the keys you press. Combining showkeys with
dumpkeys, which will print on standard output the
console keymap, you can easily fix mismatches between keycodes and
keysyms. Analogously to xmodmap,
loadkeys can then fix single associations, or load
entirely new console keymaps. With it, you can even change the string
associated to a given keysym. If you want to record these changes, you will
have to define a new keymap for the console (you should have a look at the
system keymaps, usually located in /lib/kbd).
