Re: Stupid X

[mike packard <mpackard@demeter.museum.state.il.us>]

> Umm, I'm running Xfree3.something, and I accidentally did something screwy
> with my X resources or something.  Now backspace is mapped to "delete" and
> as a result, I'm getting quite frustrated when I try to backspace.  Anyone
> remember off the top of thier heads where this kind of thing is fixed at?

A handy trick that someone taught me a long time ago that has always
temporarily fixed stuff like that (like if you're on a weird terminal or
something) is to type

stty erase [backspace key]

That always works for me whenever backspace yields a ^? or ^H or other
such nonsense.  


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