Debian :: Backspace Key Is Not Working
Aug 31, 2011
I installed Debian Squeeze yesterday and I got almost everything working except for the backspace key in any browser I've tried..I'm running it on HP Mini 210 if that can help w/ something and one more i tried upgrading it to testing but a verry long and boring text file appears and to close it and continue, i have to press the end button the problem is that i do not have one .. i've tried every single other key on the keyboard - still nothing.
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Feb 1, 2010
I am using vi(m) on a remote computer and the backspace key is not working as it should be (or as it does work on other machines). The desired behaviour is: delete the character left from the cursor.But when hitting the key always the right character is being deleted.how to set this up in the vimrc? I tried the following settings without success:
fixdel
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set nocompatible
set smartindent
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I even tried different combinations with h/H. And also a google search did not give a solution.
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Aug 1, 2009
On fedora 10 and backwards you could use Ctrl+ALT+Backspace to restart X, this was massively useful in resolving any issues with hanging x processes and so forth... without losing session data.... it seems to not work in fedora 11...
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Apr 24, 2011
In windows, using firefox you can use backspace key to navigate back pages in history. Now in Debian - I try and nothing happens. Does anyone know how to change that?
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Jan 29, 2011
I get annoying buzz sounds when I reboot or hit backspace in terminal when there is no text. It is not coming from the speaker (it happens when the computer is muted). I posted part of this a while ago, but have not been using Debian much recently (had too much school stuff to have time to set it up). running lspci -k and below is my result
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DMI (rev 11)
Subsystem: Dell Device 02fe
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 11)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
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Nov 28, 2015
Backspace doesn't work with nautilus file manager, what to do?
If i press backspace, it doesn't redirect to the previous location.
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Feb 23, 2011
One of the very few things I miss from Windows is that when you press LeftShift+Del the delete key acts like the backspace key, in other words you can use Del to delete forwards and LeftShift+Del to delete backwards.
I've been reading man pages such as xmodmap and used xev to get keycodes but I can't work out how to map LeftShift+Del to Backspace.
Can someone tell me how to do this please?
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Oct 22, 2010
I have an old computer on which the backspace key is broken (i.e. it makes no physical connection) and I would like to reassign it to another key. How would I do that?
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Jan 1, 2010
I use screen to manage multiple ssh session and it is quite neat. But the problem is that if I type something wrong and want to use backspace to delete it, it just stays there and does nothing. I don't have that in another computer but it just happens in my current box.
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Mar 5, 2009
The default is forbidden in F10.
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Feb 8, 2010
I am an Ubuntu/Linux noob, I installed Ubuntu a few weeks ago, and it sometimes gets extremely slow and crashes. I can't get out of the crash with ctrl-alt-backspace and I have even tried the key combinations suggested here to no avail.
Ubuntu 9.10
Computer:
IBM T42
mem 500 MiB
Intel Pentium 1.70GHz
The crashes usually involve Firefox being open + another program ( could be pdf reader, calibre, or something similar). I try to keep the amount of open Firefox tabs below 5 as it gets very, very slow (that was one of the reasons why I decided to install Ubuntu, in the old windows XP installation Firefox was also excruciatingly slow).
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Jun 28, 2011
I use Ubuntu terminal/putty to 'ssh 1' my routers, but backspace does not work like normal. with telnet and ssh 2 its perfect. Can any one help me how to fix this issue?
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Mar 24, 2009
hey anyone here able to tell me why my backspace key stopped deleteing characters in a the desktop terminal that installs with fedora 10. All it does now make annoying beep sound and operates like the delete key.
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Feb 24, 2010
I enabled backspace in vim by "set backspace=eol,start" and it worked. But if I close the window and open up another one, the backspace is automatically disabled again. Is there a way to enable backspace once and for all?
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Feb 4, 2010
I've found what seems to be a reproducible problem with 'ash' on slackware64-current (updates to and including Jan 31st)
Open a console
ash <enter>
type 2 or more characters, doesn't matter what.
press backspace
press backspace
**seg fault**
occurs under xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal in both kde4 and xfce and on a virtual console.
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Jun 28, 2009
So I just completed a clean install of Fedora 11 from the live CD. The only thing I've done to it thus far was to run the update manager once. Next item on the agenda was to configure my display to correctly handle my two monitors, but if I open up the controls and select 'Display' both my monitors instantly go blank. The only way to restore them is to use ctr-alt-backspace to logout. My graphics card is an ATI Radeon x800L, and right now I'm using the default ati driver that came with the system.
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Jul 26, 2010
How i can disable strg alt backspace on my machine in opensuse 11.3?
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Jan 4, 2011
I use bash shell and sometimes all of a sudded, my Backspace key stops working (when this happens Ctrl + Backspace still works fine) I am not sure why this happens, but it also carries over to any vim sessions that I use from the shell. To my surprise, getting a fresh shell does not help, and the problem seems to go away as abruptly as it started.
This is what the typed characters look like, each Backspace keypress is shown by a ^? on the shell
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Feb 10, 2010
you can use backspace as a shortcut key to go back the the under directory. How can I do that here in nautilus.
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Feb 14, 2010
why does backspace not work to go back in firefox? is there some plugin im missing or something... or is it just not included.
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May 20, 2010
the " backspace " button on my toshiba A 200 laptop works when i use it to navigate the ubuntu system folders such as documents, movies, music, computer etc ..however, it doesn't work at all within firefox !is this normal ? how can i get it to work within firefox so as to be able to make liberal use of the keyboard ?
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Oct 24, 2010
I would like to know how I can get the backspace button on my laptop keyboard to revert to the previous page I was viewing.
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Jun 24, 2010
I am running RHEL 5 and when I get the backspace key it deletes a section to the left (such as /usr/localbin) instead of just a single character to the left. How do I change that?So it deletes the section instead of just the single character n.
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Feb 23, 2009
How can I turn off the beep that happens when I backspace too many times in the terminal or other applications?
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Aug 19, 2009
used to use this feature alot in F10 ... not sure... but i can't find it in the keyboard shortcuts prefs
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Jan 27, 2011
Since I wasn't able to figure out how to enable ctrl alt backspace in kde I thought I would explain how to do it from the command line. Open /etc/X11/xorg.conf as root. Then add this to the file.
Code:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora..._release_notes
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Jan 18, 2010
I've tried without luck to get ctrl-backspace working to delete the previous word in bash. I edited my .inputrc and tried the following:
"C-": unix-word-rubout
Control-Rubout: unix-word-rubout
I can make it work if I change it to some other sequence (Control-j: unix-word-rubout makes ^j erase the word), but I can't make it work with backspace.
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Apr 9, 2011
has anyone the same problem with bash in -current? Everytime I use the commandline completition with TAB , it adds me a space, so I always need to push the backspace to continue to complete the path.So the whole thng get's a bit unuseable.I'm using bash-4.1.010-486-1 and bash-completition-1.3-noarch
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Mar 2, 2011
I have problem with some applications in X. When I want to unlock Xscreensaver it just meses my X and I must Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. I installed slock and thought I solved the problem that way, but same happened with Xpdf.
lspci:
Code:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]
uname -r:
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2.6.35.11-smp
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May 26, 2010
I'm having intermittent problems where the screen will freeze in Ubuntu. I've tried using Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to restart the X-server, though this does nothing. When the freeze occurs, there's a small square of black dashes around the mouse pointer - maybe 1 inch in size. These dashes look a lot like a 2d barcode. The rest of the screen looks normal, but I can't move the mouse and none of the keyboard shortcuts work to do anything. However, music that I begin playing before the freeze continues to play, which seems to indicate it hasn't stalled up completely.
I've noticed a similar freezing problem when I'm using Windows 7. That is, I see the same barcode like dashes around the mouse pointer when it freezes up. So I'm guessing it's either a driver or hardware problem. I thought if it was a hardware problem though, the whole computer might stop working (i.e. music would stop playing)? The video card I am using is an Nvidia, and I believe it's in the 7600 range. In Ubuntu I have the drivers for the card set to the latest available (proprietary). Ideally I'd like to be able to continue using the proprietary drivers. Is there any known issues with the drivers for this model graphics card
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