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gianni (giannife) wrote : Re: [Bug 1790100] Re: unable to write ~ and ^ chars in the terminal

They don't want to hear about it and say that it's Ubuntu's fault....

Il venerdì 9 novembre 2018, Matthieu Baerts <email address hidden> ha scritto:

> @giannione: that's interesting, that maybe means that the bug is not in
> vte2.91. May you give this information to gnome-terminal devs?
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> Title:
> unable to write ~ and ^ chars in the terminal
>
> Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Hello,
>
> I am using Ubuntu 18.10 and since the last update, I am unable to
> write ~ and ^ chars in the terminal, in both gnome-terminal and Geany
> (both using libvte2.91).
>
> I don't have this issue with other applications (terminator, xterm,
> Firefox, Gedit, etc.). But note that now, when I type ^ for the first
> time in Gedit for example, I see this char but underlined. If I type
> it a second type (or press space), it is transformed in ^ without line
> under it. This is a new behaviour that can cause this bug in libvte.
>
> Please tell me if I need to join other info!
>
> Thanks!
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
> Package: libvte-2.91-0 0.52.2-1ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.17.0-9.10-generic 4.17.17
> Uname: Linux 4.17.0-9-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu9
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
> Date: Fri Aug 31 11:17:43 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-10 (1116 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
> SourcePackage: vte2.91
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2016-04-29 (854 days ago)
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