[iPAQ] Backspace missing from xscribble in .17

I'm not sure that this is just a problem with xscribble. Several
things seemed to have changed. Here is the behavior I see now:

        1) The [<---] on my full keyboard, (w/ x2x), does not do
           anything in rxvt.

        2) The [<---] on my full keyboard, (x/ x2x), does not do
           anything in xev.

        3) The right-to-left stroke in xscribble appears to do nothing

        4) The "Del" key in xvkbd generates Delete, which in rxvt
           deletes the character under the cursor.

        5) rxvt responds to CTRL-H by erasing the character to the
           left of the cursor. (In desperation, you can hold down the
           "curving arrow"-button while stroking H in xscribble or
           simply use the two-stroke method for CTRL-H to do what you
           want from backspace).

I'm guessing these changes have to do with Jim's new keyboard work,
which is much appreciated by the way! -- I love the auto-repeating
buttons and the new access to the "power" button, (which I personally
think could make a great "fire" button for games using the joypad for
motion).

There is a good reference explaining how to make [<---] and [Del]
behave consistently across many programs at:

        http://igloo.its.unimelb.edu.au/Webmail/tips/msg00238.html

(It doesn't seem to be available at its true home of
http://www.ibbnet.nl/~anne/keyboard.html)

As the page mentions, this is a problem that should be dealt with at
the distribution level. And since we are in fact putting together a
distribution...

-Carl

Benjamin Long writes:
> Has anyone else noticed that you can't get a backspace in xscribble with
> .17? Is it just my setup?
>
> Benjamin Long
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Received on Wed Oct 11 08:00:52 2000