Comment 40 for bug 29787

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Kenyon Ralph (kralph) wrote : Re: [Bug 29787] Backspace key in GNU Screen not detected correctly

On 2009-08-05T15:00:19-0000, Jayson Williams <email address hidden> wrote:
> Here is the best solution I have found. For Jaunty Ubuntu xterm,
> right-click on the terminal screen to bring up the terminal options.
> On the left panel, select Advanced. Chane the Backspace Key Generates
> selection from Auto-detect to Control-H. That works for an xterm. I am
> using a Screenlet terminal, so this does not work for me. I suspect
> that my Screenlet terminal is hard coded to autodetect the backspace
> key, with no options I have found to change it.

That is not for xterm. That sounds like it is for xfce4-terminal. xterm
is a different package and seems to be unrelated to this bug.