xterm and backspace delete(left)

[Justin_99]

Having some trouble getting backspace to work on a system that recently was changed to Redhat AS4U4.
Problem is backspace doesn't delete as a user would expect. I personally use Putty so I do not have this problem. Users however are starting xterms via Reflection.
One odd thing that I do find is if I start an session the same way to a Suse 10.1 workstation the backspace works, only on the Redhat systems am I finding this problem.
I did find that using ctrl-v and hitting backspace key is returning different results. On the Suse system or thru Putty I get ^? on the redhat system I get ^[[3~

Points will be assignedas try possible solutions.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

stty -a

Take a look at that output, compare it to a system that is functioning normally.

use stty commands to fix the problem.

stty erase

That alone might fix it.

BTW, with ptty you can fix this with the menus.

SEP

[Justin_99]

I have tried using stty erase but I get a syntax error due to what I assume is backspace not sending anything.

I have tried stty erase ^[[3~ that I found the backspace key is sending and still no luck.

stty -a shows that erase is set to ^H.

I think what I need is to somehow change what the backspace key is sending. I.e. make it send ^H or ^? if I set erase to ^?

[Justin_99]

Fixed it.

Added the Backspace line below to /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm

*VT100.translations: #override \
BackSpace: string(0x7F)\n\
Delete: string(0x1b) string("[3~") \n\

<<>

[Justin_99]

Added Backspace line to /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm

*VT100.translations: #override \
BackSpace: string(0x7F)\n\