After upgrading from 1.3 to 2.0 my system decided to ignore <-- in an xterm, netscape, but work on the console, emacs, etc.
Since I have seen this better on other systems, I though I should read the keyboard policy, to find out what is wrong. I found a section in the debian-policy package. Great! Let's see what it says: The following list explains how the different programs should be set up to achieve this: `<--' generates KB_Backspace in X. `Delete' generates KB_Delete in X. KB_Backspace, what is this? Where is this done? I want to check if this is done on my system. Why can't you write `<--' generates KB_Backspace in X (archived by the entry XXX in file YYY). Ok. Let's try to figure out with xkeycaps, what is bound to <--. Ah, it is Delete!!! Then change is to KB_Backspace. There is no KB_Backspace:-( Then try simply Backspace! This does not change anything! That is all for me. The policy is not understandable for non-experts and the system is not working as it should. Could anybody guess what is wrong on my system or translate the policy from this expert slang? Thank you.