On Sep 3, 2006, at 20:21, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > One thing to circunvect this problem (on xterm at least) is to add: > > *xterm*backarrowKey: true Or you can do a "xterm -xrm '*xterm*backarrowKey: true'" as well. The funny thing is, I thought I tried this, but I couldn't get it to work (I must have made a typo in the resource name). > And now I can name the culprid for the problem, and it is the xterm > package. > > The file: > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm > > on 4.4 has some VT100 extra lines, including these one: > > ! keyboard setup > *VT100*backarrowKey: false Excellent detective work! I'll check what this file looks like on our systems at work (which are still running CentOS 4.3) when I get back into the office on Tuesday. > This e-mail is bouncing all around cause I was writing it as I tested. > I decided to leave it as such, since most people around don't > understand > about X Resources, and this could provide some interesting pointers > for > learning. I used to be an X-Windows developer, so I am very familiar with resources, but I had forgotten where the default resources are kept. Alfred