Paul Whiting wrote:
> 
> In message <E0xAIUk-0004FM-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
> Patrick Welche <prlw1@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> >Paul Whiting wrote:
> >> 
> >> A small but annoying problem is that I can't delete things that I
> >> mistype. Often the 'Delete' key does not work, displaying '^?'. 
> >> Typing 'stty erase ^h' does not help at these times. The problem is
> >> however intermittent - and seems not to affect me so much if I log 
> >> on as 'root'.
> >
> > Instead of ^h, try actually pressing the delete key. (As from your
> > description ^? rather than ^h would be more suitable). so
> > stty erase <delete key>
> 
> I tried that originally, and it failed. There is _no_way_ to delete
> things when I am not 'root' as far as I can see.

Ah, how about
stty echoe
as well?

> >> Which I did. Typing /usr/.../startx causes the machine to complain 
> >> that it can't find xinit. I know that it exists though as I can see
> >> it with 'ls /usr/X11R6.1/bin'.
> >
> > Is /usr/X11R6.1/bin in your path? Try
> > echo $PATH
> > If it isn't, try (I'm assuming sh shell)
> > PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6.1/bin
> >
> > The reason for this is that startx is a script. The last thing it 
> > does is to call xinit, but doesn't call it by a full path. An 
> > alternative would be to edit startx and change the last line to
> >
> > /usr/X11R6.1/xinit $clientargs -- /usr/X11R6.1/bin/X $serverargs
> 
> I tried this at your suggestion. Following on from this, I typed
> 
> /usr/X11R6.1/bin/startx
> 
> which produced a very long error along the lines of
> 
> 'use -- option, or make sure /usr/X11R6.1/bin is in path and 'X' is
> a program or link to a valid server for your display'
> 
> What do I do now?

What does
ls -l /usr/X11R6.1/bin/X
say?
It should be a link to /usr/X11R6.1/bin/Xarm
which should be a link to /usr/X11R6.1/bin/Xarm27 I think! Someone
correct me if I got that backwards!
Adding /usr/X11R6.1/bin to your path would be a good idea anyhow.

Patrick