Bug 666350 - Ctrl-Z doesn't work in gnome-terminal
Summary: Ctrl-Z doesn't work in gnome-terminal
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 14
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Behdad Esfahbod
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-12-30 10:07 UTC by Peter Verthez
Modified: 2012-08-16 17:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 17:18:12 UTC
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Description Peter Verthez 2010-12-30 10:07:09 UTC
Description of problem:

Ctrl-Z in a terminal is supposed to suspend the running foreground program, but this is not happening anymore in gnome-terminal in Fedora 14.  It still works in xterm.  


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-terminal-2.32.0-1.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open gnome-terminal
2. Start a program (e.g. gedit) in the foreground
3. Go back to the terminal and press Ctrl-Z.
  
Actual results:
Nothing happens

Expected results:
gedit should be suspended and a prompt should return (on which you can type 'bg' to move the program to background)

Additional info:

Comment 1 Peter Verthez 2010-12-30 10:10:15 UTC
Extra info: this is after an upgrade from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14, which was a reinstall, but with preservation of my home directory.

Comment 2 Andre Robatino 2010-12-31 07:05:14 UTC
It works for me on a cleanly installed and fully updated F14 x86_64, so it must have something to do with the upgrade.

Comment 3 Peter Verthez 2010-12-31 08:52:51 UTC
More info (discovered due to the bug that I found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-terminal/+bug/204202).

When I press Ctrl-W, it suspends the terminal.  I had 2 keyboard layouts defined: "Belgium" and "United Kingdom" (in that order, due to Bug 666247), with "United Kingdom" active because I have a QWERTY keyboard.   Normal typing in the gnome-terminal was taking the correct layout, but Ctrl keys apparently took the other layout, interpreting Ctrl-W as Ctrl-Z.   When I remove the "Belgium" layout, the problem disappears.

So this is an instance of the above mentioned launchpad bug.

Comment 4 Peter Verthez 2010-12-31 09:12:35 UTC
Note that that launchpad bug refers to the following upstream bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539796

which is marked duplicate of:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162726

That bug has a long discussion thread.

Comment 5 Peter Verthez 2010-12-31 09:21:28 UTC
The proposed solution there (setting environment variable GTK_IM_SEPARATE_SHORTCUTS) does not seem to work.

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