Re: Delete in gnome-terminal

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:15:27PM +0100 or thereabouts, jjhw100 wrote:
> > How do I get the Delete key to work in gnome-terminal?  At the moment it
> > sends backspace.  Also is it possible to configure the Home key to go to
> > the beginning of the current line and the End key to go to the end of
> > the current line?  Everything worked when I was using the gnome version
> > which came with redhat but since upgrading it I am unable to get it
> > working again.
> > Can anyone help?
> 
> I met this in an upgrade from RH 6.1 to 7.0. It was muddled up with
> other keyboard issues which were probably my fault.
> 
> My solution was Settings->Preferences->General (the first tab) and
> to toggle the 'Swap DEL/Backspace' checkbox from what it was before.
> 

If you upgrade 6.1 to 7.0 you have to change this preferences setting
(6.2 changed the default prefs setting to make things work right, but
if you had already saved the preference in 6.1, you wouldn't get the
new default).

If you go from Red Hat to Helix GNOME then at least for some versions
of Helix gnome-terminal is not patched to work properly. Helix said
they were fixing it, I don't know if they already have or not.

Havoc