From: Jim (jahoward@iastate.edu)
Date: 05/02/93


From: jahoward@iastate.edu (Jim)
Subject: Re: Xterm (+ Xdm?) tty weirdness...
Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 18:45:24 GMT

In <C6BELJ.I1v@cc.swarthmore.edu> rbrown1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Randolph Gregory Brown) writes:

>It may not be the xdm I added (I did a lot of changes that day) but all of a
>sudden, the keys in the xterms got _very_ weird (e.g., erase='#' (no
>kidding!)) I (finally) fixed it by setting them back to normal with the
>ttyModes resource, but what happend? I'm still using Xfree 1.1 so I can use
>XS3, and I got the SLS .99p4

> -Randy

I am having this exact same problem. When I fire up xdm form the
/etc/rc.local, sometimes it will work, and sometimes it won't.

When the xdm screen comes up, I can use all the keys fine, like they
should be, but as soon as I log in, and get my xterm, the # becomes
backspace, and the other key I noticed was that CTRL-C becomes something
else entrely. I would guess that some other keys are screwed up as
well, but I haven't found any.

If I startx from a VC, everything works perfectly. When started from
xdm, everything still works ok, as far as I can tell, except for the
keys.

Anyone else have this problem? Or know what to do about it?

Jim Howard
jahoward@iastate.edu

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