Hi,

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:49, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:

If the logged in session in the terminal window is my own user id then the delete key does nothing.  If however, I su -l in the same terminal window then the delete key removes the character under the cursor and left shifts the rest of the line.

I am fairly confident that the delete key worked in the same fashion for my usual user id up until quite recently.  Does anyone know of why or how this behaviour could differ between two separate users in the same terminal window?

I believe it is probably something to do with the profile settings of your user.

Does .bash_profile contain these lines?

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc

Does .bashrc contain these lines?

if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc

Are you using the stty command on any of those files?

Are you resetting the value of the TERM variable?

What are the output of "stty" and "echo $TERM" when you run them from a shell inside your gnome-terminal?

For reference, these are mine:

$ stty speed 38400 baud; line = 0; eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?; swtch = M-^?; ixany iutf8 $ echo $TERM xterm

You can also compare the output of these commands when you run as root after doing "su -".

If you create a new user account and log in as the new user in GNOME, open a new gnome-terminal, do the keys work as you expect them to?

HTH, Filipe