Delete key now prints ~ in Bash prompt

Inte · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:54 pm Post subject:

Hmmm ... splashutils ...

cat /etc/portage/package.keywords

Anarky · n00b Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 30 Location: France

I may be off the wall, but
I'm using zsh and had the same problem.
I solved it in the shell by typing the command

jewps · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 74

I think it's a problem with baselayout. I've had this problem for a while but I just couldn't be f*'d to do anything about it.

graybeard · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:21 am Post subject:

Well, here is a work around until you find the real cause. I opened gnome-terminal, click edit - profiles, select default, click edit. Select the compatibility tab. Change "Backspace key generates" to "Control-H". Change "Delete key generates" to "ASCII Delete". Save and close. Now it works on my machine in gnome at least. Obviously that won't affect other terminal types however.

-dan

Gentree · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 7:22 am Post subject:

onan · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:10 pm Post subject: solved

I just unmerged sysvinit and re-emerged baselayout without any ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and it solved the problem immediately. (I also unmasked these packages to use splashutils but I don't use it anyway)

thanks Gentree for your help :) , but I don't know what is the exact problem, there is a big clue at least.

Gentree · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:38 am Post subject:

I found reverting baselayout did the trick as well.

Sorry I didnt post that here , I was following about 3 threads on this pb and missed this one.

baselayout did change a whole bunch of files through etc-update but even looking closely I could not see it revert anything like a keyboard setting.

It must be in the actual coding somewhere.

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hiroki · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:29 am Post subject:

hm. i use bash-3.0-r5 and baselayout-1.10.4
i have the same problem as describes above, but what'sweird is, that this problem does not occur when using the pure bash, it only occurs when i use programs that run in a terminal like lftp or python. then i cannot delete (del) or use page-up/down.
i will give it a try and downgrade baselayout. i cannot remember when the problem appeared.

blaster999 · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject:

hiroki · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:46 pm Post subject:

bennettp · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject:

graybeard · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:59 am Post subject:

That makes sense ... but shouldn't there be a dependency between the two packages? Might seem like a minor issue except for the 36 posts in just this one thread on the subject.

-dan

marvin · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 58

Just put this in your /etc/bash/bashrc (create the file if it does not exist):

hiroki · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:42 am Post subject:

thoughts · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:17 am Post subject:

fintux · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Oulu, Finland

BTW, seems to require KDE/X11 restart for the changes to take effect (don't know which, because I zapped gdm with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace). Thank you very much for the tip, this was driving me nuts already.

zaai · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 175

Heh many thanks for posting this solution Marvin.