Re: [iPAQ] Backspace missing from xscribble in .17

I've confirmed this is the problem.

Linus has always been terminally confused in the Linux kernel keyboard
mapping: the terminal driver's keysymbol for the backspace key is delete.

I've hacked the X server to map it to delete....

Sigh...

                                        - Jim

> Sender: ipaq-admin@handhelds.org
> From: jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:52:03 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Carl Worth <cworth@east.isi.edu>
> Cc: Benjamin Long <bflong@longbros.com>, ipaq@handhelds.org,
> france@crl.dec.com
> Subject: Re: [iPAQ] Backspace missing from xscribble in .17
> -----
> It just occurred to me what the problem may be:
>
> The keyboard mapping used in xscribble is gotten from the X server,
> and the new X server gets that from the Linux tty device driver.
>
> The old X server had a built in keyboard mapping, and may not
> have had this problem, as the mapping was built in.
>
> If there isn't appropriate mapping for backspace/delete, we might lose...
>
> I'm about 90% sure that something along these lines is the problem.
> - Jim
>
>

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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg@pa.dec.com