Alt stopped working as Meta in gnome-terminal with gtk+3.0 3.2.2-0ubuntu1
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Gnome Virtual Terminal Emulator |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
vte (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
My Alt key no longer acts as Meta in gnome-terminal on my precise system as of today. So for example in bash, Alt+b no longer moves back a word, Alt+Backspace no longer deletes a word, etc. These keystrokes now act as if Alt was not pressed.
Other libvte-based terminals like xfce4-terminal are not affected.
I traced this to the upload of gtk+3.0 3.2.2-0ubuntu1. After downgrading libgtk-3-0, libgail-3-0, libgail-3-common, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, libgtk-3-bin from 3.2.2-0ubuntu1 to 3.2.0-0ubuntu3 and restarting gnome-terminal, the problem goes away.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 1.26-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 15 01:53:57 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20101202)
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in vte: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in vte: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.