Backspace problem in Terminal with screen

[Erik Harrison]

On 10/23/07, A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
>
> This is weird behavior:
>
> Im running a screen session inside a terminal window and the backspace key
> doesn't work. Outside of screen it works just fine. Dont know if this is a
> problem with screen or how terminal interacts with it.
>
> I dont have this problem running screen in a terminal window on another
> Linux box at home.
>
> This is on a Gentoo box running on a Mac G3 with a Mac keyboard.
> Xorg 7.1
> xfce 4.4.1
>

xfterm4 is actually a wrapper script that tries to run your
"preferred" terminal emulator.

Assuming that it is in fact Terminal then do this

Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Backspace Key Generates > Control-H

>
> (I should point out that if I run screen inside a regular xterm, the
> Delete key works as expected, so this problem is only when running
> screen under xfterm4).
>
>
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Erik
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