GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 541538
vte backspace not working in screen
Last modified: 2009-01-09 02:36:25 UTC
Please describe the problem: When using screen pressing backspace does not work. Ctrl-? can be used instead. Steps to reproduce: 1. Run vte. 2. start screen 3. write something and try to use backspace Actual results: Backspace does not work. So - nothing. Expected results: That it would erase last keys like backspace always do. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: If you look here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34718&p=1 (search for "backspace" keyword) all applications using libvte has this problem. But there is a patch there that helped. I don't know if that one-liner is a hack or proper solution but I hope something similar can be done in vte code so it does work properly with screen too.
Sorry. Here goes proper link. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=267377#p267377
Bug 541538 seems to be the same issue, and includes a patch.
Sorry. Make that bug 543379.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 543379 ***