Re: KDE - Backspace not working

John Scudder wrote:

> ed wrote:
>> I am having a problem with the backspace key not working in KDS V3.3
>> on a Slackware 10 installation. In all KDE applications and terminal
>> windows the back space moves to left and deletes the character but
>> when I enter another character the letter 'q' is inserted before that
>> character.
>>
>> I'm a relatively new Linux user but I have tried some things that I
>> found on the web, including creating a .Xmodmap file containing
>> 'keymode 22 = BackSpace' in the /etc/X11/xinit/ directory .
>>
>> Any idea how I can solve this?
>>
>> Thanks
> The same problem happened to me except it was the " (quote) key. I used
> the shotgun method to solve it. I renamed the .kde folder in my home
> directory to .kdebak. After I restarted kde a new .kde folder was
> automatically created and all keys worked. Of course doing this will
> reset all your kde preferences, you might want to search in the
> .kde/share/config folder and be a little more selective in your
> renaming. For me it didn't matter and I took the easy path.
>
> John

Thanks John, that seemed to do the trick!
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