When using screen, backspace doesn't follow preferences

[garo]

I'm using guake 0.4 on Debian Squeeze from the standard package. I use "/usr/bin/screen" as default interpreter and have ASCII DEL as backspace. When i start guake or when i kill the screen that is used in guake (so it happens everytime guake decides to start a new screen) the following happens, my backspace no longers work, i can only remove chars with ctrl-h. But when I open and close the guake preferences (without changing anything) it's fixed.

[garo]

I forgot to mention that i also tried to let backspace send a ctrl-h but the problem stays

[elitak]

I have this exact same problem and it is 100% reproducible for me. Every time I start or resume a screen session in guake tab, I have to open/close the preferences dialog for the backspace key to work, regardless of what compatibility option is set for it. This "fixes" that tab until it is closed -- further screen start/resumes in it have a working backspace without opening the preferences dialog.

I haven't tested newer builds of guake.

Using: Debian "testing" distribution kernel 2.6.26-1-686 Guake 0.4.0 Screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06

[pingou]

I could reproduce it:

• start guake
• screen -S test
• type something (within screen) -> backspace doesn't work
• Ctrl+A, Ctrl+D
• type something (outside screen) -> backspace works
• screen -r test
• type something (within screen) -> backspace doesn't work

Repeat it as long as desired it does not change until you load the preferences window

• guake = 0.4.0
• screen = 4.0.3
• OS = Fedora 10 & 11 x86_64

[lincoln]

Hi, I had this problem too. It was being caused because I forgot to configure backspace/delete behaviour in guake startup. (it is already fixed in master) Could you test our master branch?

If it helps, I'm packaging a snapshot of our master branch (0.4.1), maybe you can use this package to test. I'll post the package ASAP.

Thank you.

[pingou]

Thanks for it :)

I'll test it ASAP and report back here

[lincoln]

here is the snapshot:

 http://leite.alfaiati.net/~lincoln/guake_0.4.1-1_i386.deb

Thank you!

[lincoln]

Hello guys, after all this time, have you found this problem again? I'll close this bug, if something happens again, please reopen that.

Thank you.