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["Anthony J. Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>]

Dear folks,

After spending some time this weekend researching and testing, I would 
like to publish my way of getting the Delete and Backspace keys to work 
as expected, in X i.e.:

"Delete" removes the character to the right of the cursor location, and 
does not change that location

"BackSpace" removes the character to the left of the cursor location, 
and moves the cursor location one character to the left.

Here's my .xinitrc with the commands:
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#Set the Del and BackSpace keys to work right
xmodmap -e "keycode 22  = BackSpace osfBackSpace"
xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = Delete"

# Start the window manager
exec icewm

stty sane
stty erase ^H
#loadmap -e "keycode 14  = BackSpace"
#loadmap -e "keycode 111 = Delete"
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Hope this helps some folks out there.

Anthony Albert
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Anthony J. Albert                     albert AT umpi.maine.edu
Systems and Software Support Specialist          Postmaster
Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle
        "This is only temporary, unless it works."
                        --- Red Green