Re: Lost Alt+Backspace
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 06:38:00PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:52:27 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 03:58:21PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> >> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:58:17 -0800, mas wrote:
> >>
> >> > After recent upgrades (I am not certain when), I have lost the
> >> > ability to delete words by using Alt+BkSp in either gnome-terminal or
> >> > terminator. How to get that behaviour back?
> >>
> >> Juts tested and it works here (wheezy and gnome-terminal) :-?
> >
> > I've noticed alt keys not working in unstable for a couple of weeks now.
> > gnome-terminal is not affected, but xterm and xfce5-terminal certainly
> > are affected.
>
> (...)
>
> Mmm... in what way is xterm affected? I ask because I have it installed
> so I can also test :-)
I use irssi, and find that the alt-keys used to switch channels
instead produce superscripts e.g. ²³. I thought that this was
behaving like the right AltGr key, but they are not exactly the
same, and xev shows them as Alt_L and ISO_Level3_Shift,
respectively.
Regards,
Roger
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