Linux Backspace/Delete mini-HOWTO Sebastiano Vigna vigna@acm.org Revision History Revision v1.4 7 December 2025 Updated for Red Hat 7.0 and Helix Gnome conflicts. Revision v1.3 18 October 2025 Name change. Revision v1.2 15 October 2025 Updated. Added "What If Nothing Works" section. Revision v1.1 13 September 2025 Added tcsh fixes Revision v1.0 5 September 2025 First release Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. How Keys Are Turned Into Actions 3. Why It Doesn't (Always) Work 4. X 5. What You Should Do When Writing Applications 6. What You Should Do On Your System 6.1. What Needs to Be Done 6.2. How to Do It 6.3. Fixing for tcsh 7. What If Nothing Works 8. Conclusions     Next     Introduction