Package: screen Version: 4.0.3-8 Severity: important With some terminals, such as xfce4-terminal (Debian package) and osso-xterm (not in Debian), screen views the Backspace key as the nul character (^@), so that it is not possible to erase characters with it.
With xfce4-terminal, there's a workaround: type Ctrl-? (under standard configuration). But this bug can be a major problem on some platforms, with little choice. This is the case of the N810 (Maemo/OS2008), where osso-xterm is the only terminal: a ssh to a Debian machine + screen shows this problem, and I don't know any workaround, so that this makes screen more or less unusable in practice. This bug has also been reported here (for Ubuntu): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen/+bug/29787 The suggested workaround doesn't work in Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.4-20080326 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages screen depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080419-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l screen recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
