-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm providing a summary here for easy searching, including the problem and the solution. I tried adding it to the CentOS Wiki, but unfortunately I don't have permission. The problem started with xterm-192-1.EL4.0. CentOS 4.4 includes version 192-4.EL4, while CentOS 4.3 includes 192-1 (before the change). when the following lines (along others) were added to the XTerm resource files, located at: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm Other relevant resource files might include UXTerm and XTerm-color, on the same directory. The lines (2): ! keyboard setup *VT100*backarrowKey: false This particular resource will cause all VT terminals to disable the backarrowKey feature, which means BS will no longer send ^H, but will send DEL instead (^?). To test this behaviour, open an xterm, and use Control-LeftButton to open one of the configuration windows (hold the left button of your mouse down), selecting the "Backarrow Key (BS/DEL)" option. When enabled, you get ^H. When disabled, you get ^?. The least intrusive way to fix this is to create a .Xresources file on the user home directory (~/.Xresources), adding the following like: *VT100*backarrowKey: true After that, you can either restart X (Control-Alt-Backspace is great for it, also "telinit 3; telinit 5" as root), you just merge this new value: xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources NOTE: On my previous e-mail, I mentioned .Xdefaults, which was the correct name for older versions of X11. Sometime along the way, you was renamed to .Xresources. If you use .Xdefaults, it will not be loaded automaticaly. You can, of course, edit the XTerm resource file directly, or /etc/X11/Xresources, but you can (will?) have problems on future updates. The great advantage of this method is not loosing it on a future update. In any case, you will have to close your terminal windows and reopen them for the change to take effect. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE+3XQpdyWzQ5b5ckRArV8AJ9UtC+H07/Hib61Ahl3yO9HPjOQKQCgoLq3 upmAdUlLlrpY/WXYIWo6E5M= =wPmx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----