[desktop-discuss] gnome-terminal Page UP keys not working on SPARC

[Shawn Walker]

On 02/03/07, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Andrew Watkins <andrew at dcs.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Using B57 on a SPARC U10 and I have noticed that the "Page UP", "Page Down", Home, End keys do NOT work in gnome-terminal.
> >
> > They work fine in other applications dterm, firefox, thunderbird.
>
> I've complained about this before. It makes the terminal emulator
> completely unuseable for me, to the point that I refuse to install
> nevada on a machine I actually have to get real work done on,
> and on the machines I do run nevada on I have to use xterm.
>
> How can we get this fixed?

It's a "feature" apparently. See my blog post for "problem 3" for the solution:

http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/2005/03/solaris-10-tips-and-tricks.html

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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