Bug 1414 – zsh doesn't work inside a gnome-terminal

Bug 1414 - zsh doesn't work inside a gnome-terminal

Summary:	zsh doesn't work inside a gnome-terminal

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	gnome-core (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Owen Taylor
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Reported:	1999-03-03 18:34 EST by Pekka Pietikäinen
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-06-09 17:40:13 EDT
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Description Pekka Pietikäinen 1999-03-03 18:34:40 EST

When using zsh in gnome-terminal in 5.8.2 several
keybindingings don't work properly (eg. tab completion or
arrow keys, instead of doing something it just shows
what the key would normally do). gnome-terminal+bash is
fine, so is xterm+zsh or console+zsh.

Comment 1 Pekka Pietikäinen 1999-03-11 17:50:59 EST

Removing the setuid bit from gnome-pty-helper fixed the problem.
Basically the tty's got owned by root in /dev/pts so the user
didn't have the permission to access them.

Actually I don't think a gnome-pty-helper is needed at all with UNIX98
pty's. Also you could call the fact the tty gets shown as ttypX
instead of pts/X in utmp in gnome-terminal a bug (since the tty
really is a pts/X)

Comment 2 Owen Taylor 1999-06-09 17:40:59 EDT

These problems were fixed prior to 6.0.

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