If you're in an editor like NANO or just in bash.. pressing DEL gives BACKSPACE. This can be very frustrating when coding something Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open a document 2. write some text 3. press DEL Actual Results: it sent Backspace Expected Results: sent DEL Portage 2.0.50-r11 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8- gentoo-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -msse2 -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame- pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3. 3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config / usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -msse2 -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit- frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi acpi4linux apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cdb cddb cdr cdrom chroot clamav client cnamefix crypt ctype cups devfs26 directfb dmx dvd encode erandom escreen esd esx exif fbcon fdftk flac foomaticdb frontbase ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gmp gnome gnomedb gpm gtk gtk2 icq idea imlib ipv6 ipv6arpa irda irmc jabber java javacomm jp2 jpeg kde libg++ libgd libwww lirc lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir maildrop md5sum mhash mikmod mmap mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer msn nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh ncurses net nls nntp nptl ntlm oggvorbis openal opengl openssh operanom2 oscar ospfapi oss pam pcap pcmcia pdflib perl png pthreads python qt quicktime radeon readline samba sdl shaperslang snmp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype usb v4l2 wifi x86 xml xml2 xmms xprint xv yahoo zlib"
if u loadkeys no instead of no-latin1 then u get DEL instead of BACKSPACE, but norwegian chars stops working
Error in no-latin1 keyboard map. Work-around: 1) gunzip no-latin1.map.gz 2) Comment away the line reading: plain keycode 111 = Delete # "Remove" originally 3) re-gzip no-latin1.map.gz voila
what version of sys-apps/kbd ?
* sys-apps/kbd Latest version available: 1.12-r2 Latest version installed: 1.12-r2 Size of downloaded files: 864 kB Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kbd/ Description: Keyboard and console utilities License: GPL-2 I belive this refers to any version of this file as I got reply back from it's author. It was written in 1994 (!!!!). I've also notifed the upstream.
workaround is there... but noone in gentoo cared to respond..
