when you run the screen program under xfce-extra/terminal backspace does nothing until you go to Preferences > Advanced icon > Backspace key generates: and change it to Control-H or ASCII DEL. Each time you run a new instance of terminal and open an existing screen session or open a new one, you must change the code the backspace key generates. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open terminal (xfce-extra/termianl) 2. run screen (screen or screen -RD) 3. type something and try erase it with backspace Actual Results: The characters do not get erased. Expected Results: The typed characters should get erased. I am running ~x86 version of terminal and screen, same problem existed with the x86 version. emerge info Portage 2.0.53_rc2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib alsa apache2 arts avi bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl directfb divx4linux djbfft doc dts dv dvd dvdread encode esd fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fpx gdbm gif gimpprint gnutls gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hpn i8x0 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jikes jpeg junit kde lcms libcaca libg++ libwww live lzo mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mythtv ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds prelude python qt quicktime readline real rtc samba sdl sensord slang sndfile source spell ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales vcd vorbis wmf wxgtk wxgtk1 wxwindows xanim xine xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I forgot to add this, I see this bug has been sent to the xfce Gentoo developers, running in aterm and xterm screen works fine.
XFCE 4.2.3.2 fixes this problem. I don't know the proceedure for this all, but the bug no longer exists in the newest version of XFCE in Portage.
I just tried again on my fairly new ~x86 install, it doesn't work now.
It's an issue with the autodetection in Terminal. If you set the "Backspace key generates:" option in Terminal's preferences to Control-H it works perfectly fine.
Well then you have some oddball patch or something because it DOESN'T work for me. As the original post says, I have to change it each time I open terminal. I guess this is the last bug I post as I got absolutely no help from you.
Since you are using a patch (http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1272) that is not included any of the Terminal versions of Portage, I don't think you're much of a dev as you failed to say anything about using that patch. Tried it once and it didn't work, now it does. But I'm still never filing another bug with Gentoo Bugzilla as you failed to give me any information. Thanks for nothing.
I can verify that this bug still repros with terminal version 0.2.4-r1 and screen version 4.0.2-r5 The repro steps are as follows: 1) open terminal 2) inside terminal run screen 3) try to type and erase 4) change "backspace key generates" to Control-H or ASCII DEL 5) erase the text you just typed 6) exit out of screen and terminal 7) open terminal again 8) Check that the "Backspace key generates" is the same as you had changed it to previously 9) run screen 10) type text and attempt to delete it. Result: Not deleted Expected: Deleted # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre10-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-ck6-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-ck6-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre18 distcc 2.18.3 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r1 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O3 -fweb -frename-registers -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." 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This is happening for me as well. $ qlist -Iv terminal screen app-misc/screen-4.0.2-r5 xfce-extra/terminal-0.2.4 Reproduceable: Always Steps to reproduce: 1) open terminal 2) inside terminal run screen 3) try to type and erase 4) change "backspace key generates" to Control-H or ASCII DEL 5) erase the text you just typed 6) exit out of screen and terminal 7) open terminal again 8) Check that the "Backspace key generates" is the same as you had changed it to previously 9) run screen 10) type text and attempt to delete it. Result: Not deleted Expected: Deleted NOTE: This only happens with screen running locally. If I ssh to my gentoo server running the same version of screen, I am able to use the backspace key as expected. $ emerge --info Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr emboss encode fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k ldap libg++ mad mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_nv video_cards_mesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
