alt + backspace; alt+d etc. don't work anymore

[Alexander Sack]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

since recent update alt key isnt useful in gnome-terminal anymore. this is major regression for my way of typing. Please fix. ask for more info on IRC. thanks!

[Tobias Wolf (towolf)]

Can confirm.

This is the Gnome bug whose fix broke it:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601926

[Tobias Wolf (towolf)]

I think that’s vte, not g-t.

[Anmar Oueja (anmar)]

I used to be able to do alt+a with Weechat to see the rooms I had activities in and that stopped working. I have to use Esc+a instead. It used to work just fine. I have Maverick with the latest updates as of Aug 18 - 13:20 UTC.

[Mingming Ren (portis25)]

Downgrade vte to 0.24.3 fixed the problem.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

I can confirm that reverting http://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/commit/?id=b73782a28894e25ed146271f9d6c6775a6836199 fixes the problem. Here is a debdiff that does that.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Confirmed fix, thanks Anders!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vte - 1:0.25.90-0ubuntu3

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vte (1:0.25.90-0ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Anders Kaseorg ]
  * debian/patches/fix-alt-modifier.patch:
    - Revert upstream commit b73782a, which broke the Alt modifier.
      (LP: #619754)
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:49:37 +1000

[Anmar Oueja (anmar)]

works for me too

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

this was fixed properly in the upstream bug now, could we get an update with that patch? thanks.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Yeah, here. I tested it in my PPA.

[fbraun (fbraun)]

Still affected in upstream :(
Too bad it didn't make it into maverick. Any chance of going for upstream soon?

[Kevin Otte (nivex)]

I've had to use Konsole to continue using Alt keys, which I use heavily in irssi. Upgrading to Natty is not really a consideration at this time. Will there be a fix for this pushed to Maverick? If not, does someone have a PPA with the fixed package?