When using screen inside of Terminal, the auto-detection of the backspace key does not work, and you have to manually set it to Control-H in Preferences/Advanced. Steps to reproduce: 1) Start a Terminal - note that backspace is working as it should 2) Start screen (screen-4.0.3-8.fc8 was used here), type some garbage in the shell, backspace key does nothing 3) Change TERM to various values with no effect 4) Change the backspace key in Preferences/Advanced to Control-H, and notice everything works as it should again. This occurs in Terminal-0.2.8-2.fc8
Looks like this has been reported upstream: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2925 and the mandrivia maintainer (who reported it) has a patch for it: http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=36455 Will try and track down that patch and get it pushed out. Thanks for the bug report!
Turns out after digging around, the fix in mandriva is just them setting the terminal settings to control-H by default. I will see if I can come up with some more clean solution...
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