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I was having trouble with two keyboard keys on the laptop I recently set 
up with BL 3.5: both the backspace and the delete key were doing 
right-delete. I had no left-delete key. I found an old post by Steven 
where he showed how to switch backspace and delete keys by entering a 
couple of appropriate lines into the .xinitrc file. His lines weren't 
doing the trick for me, so I looked around a bit more. Since the delete 
key was working fine, I figured I only needed one line in .xinitrc. The 
line that finally resolved my problem is

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xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
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I put that line at the very beginning of the .xinitrc file. It resolved 
the problem: now the backspace key really backspaces (delete-left) and the 
delete key continues to work as it should (delete-right). Maybe this 
information will help you if you ever run into this problem in BL 3.5 (or 
later?).

James