problem with aixterm and MacX

[Chris Gressley]

resnick at cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:

>paulonis at kodak.com (Mike Paulonis) writes:

>>I use MacX v1.0.1 to access an IBM RS/6000 (AIX v3.1) using aixterm.  I cannot
>>get aixterm to accept the delete(backspace) key for erasing characters on the
>>command line.  All I get is an echo of ^[[P. Grrrrr. 


>1) Make sure you are using aixterm -v for vt102 mode.
>2) Make sure that the keymap for vt102's is made. On the RT, this means
>using the keycomp command on the keymap.vt file and putting the result
>into the /usr/lpp/X11/defaults/vt directory. Your XDIR environment
>variable must point there.


An easier solution that worked for me was placing the following line in
my .Xdefaults file on the RS/6000:

		aixterm.Translations: <Key>Delete:string(0xff08)

where the hex string 0xff08 is the definition of the backspace key
found in /usr/include/X11/keysymdefs.h.

Chris