Public bug reported:
The latest version of VTE in Maverick broke alt/meta escape keys. The
terminal no longer recongnizes when left alt is being held down and
right alt only allows for the file menus to be called up. The actual
terminal just passes whatever combo key was pressed with the alt combo.
As far as I can tell, nothing is wrong with the keyboard or alt, because
the alt key still works in all other programs, such as compiz and
openoffice.
The reason I believe this a flaw in VTE, is because it only affects
libvte based terminals, such as: gnome-terminal, terminator, and
xfce4-terminal. Xterm and Aterm still work with alt/meta.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libvte9 1:0.25.90-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-15.21-generic 2.6.35.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-15-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 18 10:43:41 2010
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vte
** Affects: vte (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick
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Alt/Meta escape keys no longer work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619939
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