Hi!
After upgrade my Fedora from 32 to 33 I found Meta key in the gnome-terminal works strange. Looks like now the gnome-terminal recognizes Alt key as Meta key. Everywhere in the system Win key is the Meta key and in the gnome-terminal only Alt key is the Meta key. I see it because before Win+Backspace deleted the whole word, but now it deletes just one symbol and Alt+Backspace deletes the whole word. Does anybody know how to return it to previous behavior?
On 11/23/20 8:07 AM, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote:
After upgrade my Fedora from 32 to 33 I found Meta key in the gnome-terminal works strange. Looks like now the gnome-terminal recognizes Alt key as Meta key. Everywhere in the system Win key is the Meta key and in the gnome-terminal only Alt key is the Meta key. I see it because before Win+Backspace deleted the whole word, but now it deletes just one symbol and Alt+Backspace deletes the whole word. Does anybody know how to return it to previous behavior?
From the gnome-terminal help, it says that alt-backspace is the *bash* shortcut to delete the previous word. So the current behaviour is correct. I can only guess that the terminal changed the handling of meta vs alt for passing to bash.
On 23/11/2020 22:04, Samuel Sieb wrote:
From the gnome-terminal help, it says that alt-backspace is the *bash* shortcut to delete the previous word. So the current behaviour is
Alt-backspace is just an example. Another example is navigation by words. In F32 it was Win+F/Win-B for forward/back navigation by words and now in F33 it's Alt-F/Alt-B.
On 11/23/20 1:47 PM, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote:
On 23/11/2020 22:04, Samuel Sieb wrote:
From the gnome-terminal help, it says that alt-backspace is the *bash* shortcut to delete the previous word. So the current behaviour is
Alt-backspace is just an example. Another example is navigation by words. In F32 it was Win+F/Win-B for forward/back navigation by words and now in F33 it's Alt-F/Alt-B.
Which is still the same answer I gave. Those are bash shortcuts which are supposed to use ALT. I suspect that gnome-terminal was mapping Meta to Alt to avoid conflict with its own shortcuts, but realized that was a bad idea.
On 23/11/2020 23:16, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Which is still the same answer I gave. Those are bash shortcuts which are supposed to use ALT. I suspect that gnome-terminal was mapping Meta
OK, the question is how to change it and configure using of Win keys instead of Alt keys? BTW, I don't use bash in the terminal, I use zsh.
On 11/23/20 2:28 PM, Denis Shaposhnikov wrote:
On 23/11/2020 23:16, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Which is still the same answer I gave. Those are bash shortcuts which are supposed to use ALT. I suspect that gnome-terminal was mapping Meta
OK, the question is how to change it and configure using of Win keys instead of Alt keys? BTW, I don't use bash in the terminal, I use zsh.
You really doubt that you'll be able to switch it back. It could possibly be also related to Wayland, but that's speculation. I guess zsh either uses the same shortcuts or more likely the same input library as bash.
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