gtk2 bug breaking XFCE terminal

[Christoph Wickert]

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