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Since someone else had problems when they installed bl2-x before other
files (missing pieces of icewm) I took a look in the bl2-x package and
I found that it installed

.xinitrc (I have that, it included icewm)
.Xdefaults (I have that - with somethng about Delete key, I think)
XF86Config (hard to tell whether it installed that since I made my own)

/usr/X11R6/bin/icewm    and icewmbg  and icewmhint


It should have but did not install a lot of things in
/usr/X111R6/lib/X11/icewm - this directory is not there.
Which probably explains why no penguin.
There is a twm directory there.
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I then investigated the backspace problem by replacing my
84-key keymap with the standard one.

The backspace key works.  I don't know whether its not working has
anything to do with the partial bl2-x installation, but it probably
would not hurt to put a line in .xinitrc (before the window manager)
loading the standard keymapping.

With this standard mapping my 84-key keyboard, surprisingly, works
in an xterm.  It does not work in flwriter (an X program) so I put
back the other mapping.  


Apart from setting up icewm to work with a penguin, what else is bl2-x
supposed to accomplish?  Could I just leave it out of my X installation if
I don't want icewm?  I ended up changing .xinitrc anyway, and .Xdefaults
may have something to do wtih my backspace problem, and I redid XF86Config
with the xf86config program (or whatever it is called).  I know a lot of
work went into it, and it appears to work nicely for everyone else with
icewm, but I prefer the invisible ratpoison since I am only running one X
program at a time.  I would rather have no window manager at all but as
Steven said, X programs work better with a window manager.
Flwriter crashes without one, and Opera made me use a mouse to load it
when I had no window manager (the Enter key simply would not work on an
OK button).

JP, thanks again for ratpoison.

Thanks to Howard for compiling zgv.  I would appreciate a link from the
BL2-2 site to Howard's lynx and zgv.