Keyboard problem - press delete button and get "~"

CarlUman

Not sure what is up but I just finished going to a pure udev system (followed the udev primer) and now a new problem with the keyboard showed up.

When ever I press the delete key a ~ sign shows up on the screen. So if I hold the delete key down to... well delete I get a bunch of ~ like ~~~~~~~~~~~ so I'm wondering if any of you have some ideas on this? I also get a ~ on my command prompt but not real sure what char it is suppose to be.

Thanks
Carl

bunder · Bodhisattva Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 5947

I've seen this on my smoothwall router machine... If they're is nothing to delete ahead of the cursor when i press delete it will show up.

The one in your prompt is normal, it means you're in you're home directory.
eg: "joe@box ~ $" MEANS "joe@box /home/joe $"

Does this help?

--beugh
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CarlUman · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:30 am Post subject:

CarlUman · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:29 pm Post subject:

Just checking to see if anyone has some ideas.

Thanks

curious_bob · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:27 am Post subject:

I have that problem too. but only in my terminal. every where else it works fine.
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ctford0 · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:42 am Post subject:

which version of baselayout do you have?

last week i updated to the unstable version of baselayout which grabbed the unstable version of sysvinit. with that combination i had the same behavior.

chris

CarlUman · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:55 am Post subject:

Sorry it took so long to get back. I have sys-apps/baselayout-1.10.4

I have that same version on another PC w/o any problem though.

Thanks

ctford0 · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:24 am Post subject:

yea that's exactly the one that i had the problems with. I'm sure you overwrote your config files on both machines right? If not then that could possibly explain why one would work and the other doesn't.

this is definitely a baselayout/sysvinit problem, not sure which though. It makes my system act more like a hp unix machine on the command line.

try comparing the keymap files in /etc/init.d on each of the machines. If they are different then you have your answer.

chris

smart · Guru Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 455

What you describe is an error in your terminal settings. For whatever reasons. Are your environment variables ok ?
To get around it for the session type "stty erase <yourbackspacekeyhere>", leaving out <> stuff certainly.

CarlUman · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject:

Will check tonight.

Thanks

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

/home/<you>/.inputrc:

CarlUman · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:13 am Post subject:

westboy21 · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:19 am Post subject:

That's funny. I just read this post tonight because I have the same problem. Why is it that after doing running some updates, things like this change. This is one of those things, that if it was that way when installing the system, it should always be that way. Not like an fstab file or something that always changes.

Anywho, I did the same thing you did. I went into /etc/inputrc and commented the same line out. Alas, I'm in the same boat as you, and have no idea how to get out.

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

CarlUman · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:04 am Post subject:

worked

Thanks

BlinkEye · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:13 am Post subject:

great, this works for me too. didn't thought i would find an answer. thanks!
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