keyboard error (the strangest thing...)

[Brett Jones]

FIXED!

Thanks for the help!  Deep in the bowels of the system X init files I found an
.Xmodmap with only that line in it.  Renaming the file and starting VNC again
brought back a working version.

RedHat must have but that in there for some reason in 6.0.  So this fix
probably breaks something else (like your WABI problem), but I'll cross that
bridge..

Thanks for the help!

Brett

WJCarpenter wrote:

> bj> Any time I hit the '5' key (on the NT keyboard), I get a backspace
> bj> inside VNC.  The 5 key is the only key this happens with.  I
> bj> cannot get a percent sign now, as pressing 5 with either shift key
> bj> still remains a backspace.  I'm assuming it's backspace, because
> bj> pressing ^V and then 5 yields the same control code on the screen
> bj> as ^V Backspace.  (Normally it just erases text.)
> bj> - Pressing the 5 key on the linux console (while in X) works correctly.
>
> Heh.  "Me, too!"  I'm not fluent enough in X server lore to
> economically figure out the fundamental reason for this, but I at
> least know how to cure the symptoms.  I was lucky enough to start
> having this problem and notice it right away after I added this line
> to my startup script:
>
>         xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
>
> I added this line because it's needed to get Backspace to behave
> itself under Caldera's Linux WABI.  I just blindly did what the WABI
> README or FAQ or something said to do to cure the problem.  When I
> read the man page for xmodmap and looked at its outputs, the line above
> made no sense to me, but it did fix the Backspace problem in WABI.
>
> So, the cure for you is to find such a line in your X start-up scripts
> and get rid of it!  :-) If you don't have such a line (or can't find
> it or whatever), you may be able to restore sanity to your life via
> this command:
>
>         xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = 5 percent"
>
> As they say in department of labor, "Works for me."  If anyone has any
> real info about this quirk, I'd be curious to hear it.
> --
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