Bizarre weirdness with del key and GNOME Terminal

[D. D. Brierton]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:06 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> _Each_ user has a configuration file that defines key mapping so there
> is a file somewhere in $HOME that stores those values.
> 
> It seems from your description that something has caused an incorrect
> value to be mapped to the del key.

But only at the command line -- Delete behaves as expected in text
editors and other applications.

> I do not know the exact file, but surely someone on this list can
> provide that data.
> 
> If that is happening only on the terminal, it can be edited from the
> gnome terminal menu "edit - profile - default - compatibility".  Mine is
> set to backspace -> ASCII DEL,   delete -> escape sequence.

So is mine.

> There also is a button to reset options to defaults. 

I've tried that and it doesn't make any difference.

Anyway I have now determined that this isn't only happening in GNOME
Terminal as I at first thought, but also in xterm, konsole, and the
console. So there is some setting somewhere that is doing this, but I
just don't know where to find it.

Thanks, Darren

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