Rebeling computer: DEL and backspace
07 Apr 2004Debian for a long time tried to have their own xterm type ‘xterm-debain’. In order to work around some problem I was having some point in the past (the oldest dotfile I have in my home directory is dated “Jan 27 1997”) I created a my personal xterm terminfo file that had some bug fix.
Fast forward to present day: I’ve upgraded to gnome 2.4, bringing with it many other updates, and suddenly bash is printing “~” when I hit DEL and joe is DEL’ing when I backspace.
This drives me nuts trying to compare the setup on that machine with all the other well behaving debian boxes I have. Finally I ran strace
[...]
access("/home/myers/.terminfo/x/xterm", R_OK) = 0
open("/home/myers/.terminfo/x/xterm", O_RDONLY) = 3
[...]
Lessions learned:
strace
is the greatest- It might be nice to start with a clean
$HOME
every so often