I had the same problem with the "m" key, the problem was that the keyboard shortcut for Copy (or Paste) of the gnome terminal was set to the "m" key.
I suspect that the problem comes from a bug in gnome terminal automatic keyboard shortcut functionality (select a menu function and type keys to assign a shortcut), normally it should work only with if a control key is given but maybe in some case it works only with one and hence the bug ... -- Lowercase "v" key not working in gnome terminal https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/400329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs