Bug 75796
| Summary: | Backspace and delete are still not properly configured in gnome-terminal | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Sebastiano Vigna <sebastiano.vigna> |
| Component: | termcap | Assignee: | Petr Raszyk <praszyk> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | hp, mitr, nalin |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | termcap-5.4 Rel.6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-09-20 08:56:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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gnome-terminal settings are right, maybe the terminfo/termcap stuff is wrong. My off-the-shelf 8.0 distribution has TERM=xterm inside gnome-terminal. BTW, I thought bero is not here to handle this bug anymore? Right, I don't know if TERM=gnome is ever used. Bero's packages/bugs will get reassigned at some point, just hasn't been done yet. I realise that a stock distribution has xterm as the terminal for gnome-terminal. However, why ever there is a gnome entry and it does not correspond to the standard settings for gnome-terminal? I am trying to have my settings work on several machines and also to be consistent when I move between machines with ssh, but in this way it is not easy... historically, the keyboard setting of gnome-terminal and xterm has not always be aligned, and having two entries helps. Fixed in FEDORA CORE 4 (using termcap-5.4 Rel.6). termcap-5.4 Rel.6 added on Mon Sep 5 10:55:07 CEST 2005 (FEDORA CORE 4). After this update termcap-values/terminfo-values for delete-key and backspace key (xterm/gnome) are synchronized. terminfo -> xterm -> backspace-key -> kbs=\177 termcap -> xterm -> backspace-key -> kb=\177 terminfo -> xterm -> delete-key -> kdch1=\E[3~ termcap -> xterm -> delete-key -> kD=\E[3~ terminfo -> gnome -> backspace-key -> kbs=\177 termcap -> gnome -> backspace-key -> kb=\177 terminfo -> gnome -> delete-key -> kdch1=\E[3~ termcap -> gnome -> delete-key -> kD=\E[3~ xterm-emulator and gnome-emulator really emit these keys. Default 'stty erase' setting for xterm is ^? (== 0177). Default 'stty erase' setting for gnome is ^? (== 0177). The same above, xterm/gnome emits 0177 after pressing backspace-key. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: A stock Red Hat 8.0 has gnome-terminal emitting DEL for the Backspace key and an escape sequence for the Delete key, but the terminfo database entry "gnome" shipped with the distribution has kbs=^H, i.e., it assumes that Backspace will emit ^H. This causes all kinds of problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Open gnome-terminal, and try to use an application, such ne (the nice editor) that uses the database correctly. Some application may work if they use the keys with an intended meaning, but this does not mean that the database is configured properly. I have written the Backspace/Delete Mini-HOWTO about the matter. For instance, try KBS=$(tput kbs) if [ ${#KBS} -eq 1 ]; then stty erase $KBS; fi This should set correctly the erase character *in all cases*, but after this backspace and delete will do the same, instead, as the database returns wrong information. Additional info: I know that I can change the behaviours of the key, but the problem is that an *off-the-shelf* distribution is not configured properly!