Edgar:
I took a look at the backspace key not working in VTE and the problem
seems to be in the src/vte.c file, in the function
vte_terminal_key_press.
It has some code like this:
case VTE_ERASE_AUTO:
default:
if (terminal->pvt->pty_master != -1) {
if (tcgetattr(terminal->pvt->pty_master, &tio != -1) {
normal = g_strdup_printf("%c",
tio.c_cc[VERASE]);
normal_length = 1;
}
}
The problem seems to be that the tcgetattr() function is returning -1.
I notice errno is 22 (EINVAL). This is odd since the tcgetattr() man
page doesn't indicate that this is a return code tcgetattr() will
return. EINVAL is "Invalid argument", but the arguments look okay to
me. Weird.
You can hack around this by changing the two calls in vte_terminal_init
to pass in VTE_ERASE_ASCII_BACSPACE instead of VTE_ERASE_AUTO.
vte_terminal_set_backspace_binding(terminal,
VTE_ERASE_ASCII_BACKSPACE);
vte_terminal_set_delete_binding(terminal,
VTE_ERASE_ASCII_BACKSPACE);
That seems a hacky workaround, though. Anybody have any ideas why
tcgetattr() would be failing here?
Brian
> Hello, I'm using SXCE and I'm actually new to Solaris. Anyway, I've been a
> linux user for several years now, and decided to try out an opensolaris
> distro, and let me tell you I'm very happy.
>
> One of the main problems I'm haivng right now is not being able to use VTE
> properly, I need vte since I'm trying to use Guake
> [u]http://www.guake-terminal.org/[/u], I've compiled it already and it's
> usable, but since it uses vte it's problems migrated to guake.
>
> Ok, to the problem: I'm not able to use the backspace nor delete keys in VTE,
> also when using VIM and trying to move through a document with the cursor
> keys is not possible, it just does strange things like scrolling on a single
> line(that is, shows the next line by replacing the first...). This is really
> annoying and happens only with vte, gnome-terminal does not show this problem
> (althought gnome-terminal also uses libvte... I just don't understand). First
> I though it was a problem with my TERM setting, but hacking the code and
> setting VTE terminal emulation to "xterm-color" resulted in the same issue.
>
> Also, I would like to know what can I do to set the TERM to "xterm-color"
> permanently, since adding TERM=xterm-color in /etc/profile or ~/.profile only
> sets TERM to "xterm". One last thing... in terminals I'm not able to use the
> end/start keys of my keyboard... what do I need to enable those? thanks in
> advance!
>
> Edgar Merino
>
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