Backspace problem in Terminal with screen

polytan polytan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 10:54:09 CEST 2007


I have the same issue.

2007/10/24, Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com>:
>
> 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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