Hi XFCE lovers,
I ran into a bug[1] introduced by the latest update to gtk2-2.24.8-2.fc16.x86_64. This leads to XFCE Terminal ignoring the Alt key. This is rather severe since it breaks command line editing for all shells and similar utilities that use readline or similar libraries.
I would file a bug report myself but at the moment I am short of time and downgrading to gtk2-2.24.7-2.fc16.x86_64 "fixes" the problem temporarily. So I thought communicating the issue to others affected might encourage them to file the report before I manage to find the time.
Thanks a lot.
Footnotes:
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649098
Am Donnerstag, den 01.12.2011, 12:41 +0100 schrieb suvayu ali:
Hi XFCE lovers,
I ran into a bug[1] introduced by the latest update to gtk2-2.24.8-2.fc16.x86_64. This leads to XFCE Terminal ignoring the Alt key. This is rather severe since it breaks command line editing for all shells and similar utilities that use readline or similar libraries.
I would file a bug report myself but at the moment I am short of time and downgrading to gtk2-2.24.7-2.fc16.x86_64 "fixes" the problem temporarily. So I thought communicating the issue to others affected might encourage them to file the report before I manage to find the time.
It seems that the behavior of GTK is right, but requires a patch in vte to bring the Alt key back. Can you please update to the latest vte package from updates-testing [1]? If this doesn't help, I'll file a bug against vte.
Regards, Christoph
[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-16437/vte-0.28.2-1.fc16
Hi Christoph,
Thanks a lot for taking a look. :)
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 14:26, Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert@googlemail.com wrote:
It seems that the behavior of GTK is right, but requires a patch in vte to bring the Alt key back. Can you please update to the latest vte package from updates-testing [1]? If this doesn't help, I'll file a bug against vte.
I reapplied the gtk2 update and updated vte from updates-testing.
$ rpm -qa gtk2 vte vte-0.28.2-1.fc16.x86_64 gtk2-2.24.8-2.fc16.i686 gtk2-2.24.8-2.fc16.x86_64
And in XFCE terminal the problem reappears. Downgrading gtk2 but keeping the vte update from updates-testing gets me back to the normal behaviour again.
$ rpm -qa gtk2 vte gtk2-2.24.7-2.fc16.i686 gtk2-2.24.7-2.fc16.x86_64 vte-0.28.2-1.fc16.x86_64
Regards, Christoph
[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-16437/vte-0.28.2-1.fc16
I did this check remotely with X forwarding. I'll repeat it when I have access to the machine again. But I don't think the results will be any different.
Hope this helps.
Am Donnerstag, den 01.12.2011, 14:26 +0100 schrieb Christoph Wickert:
It seems that the behavior of GTK is right, but requires a patch in vte to bring the Alt key back. Can you please update to the latest vte package from updates-testing [1]? If this doesn't help, I'll file a bug against vte.
Regards, Christoph
[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-16437/vte-0.28.2-1.fc16
There already was an old bug open from F14: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792 Although it is strictly speaking not the same bug, the problem is the same. I have added the relevant info and Thomas built fixed vte packages for testing. They are available at http://thm.fedorapeople.org/vte/
Regards, Christoph
Hi Christoph,
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 16:28, Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert@googlemail.com wrote:
There already was an old bug open from F14: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792 Although it is strictly speaking not the same bug, the problem is the same. I have added the relevant info and Thomas built fixed vte packages for testing. They are available at http://thm.fedorapeople.org/vte/
I installed the update and updated gtk2, everything works as expected now.
$ rpm -qa gtk2 vte gtk2-2.24.8-2.fc16.i686 gtk2-2.24.8-2.fc16.x86_64 vte-0.28.2-1.fc16.1.x86_64
Thanks a lot. :)
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Christoph Wickert -
Suvayu Ali