environment (/etc/profile) and X

[Willem Riede]

On 01/21/2005 11:27:27 AM, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:12:15 -0500, Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com>  
> wrote:
> > 
> >>We spent a lot of time fixing this several years ago, must have gotten
> >>busted somehow.
> >>Be sure there's a bugzilla...
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not that sure its busted out-of-the-box ... my delete key works
> > just fine in gnome-term and xterm running in a gnome-desktop  started
> > from gdm out of runlevel 5 using the prefdm mechanism. INPUTRC is set
> > and as far as I can tell reading through the prefdm logic...
> > /etc/profile gets called exactly once  inside the /usr/bin/gdm 
> > script, assuming the test -f /etc/profile  succeeds.  Sounds to me
> > like someone has made a local change to the script logic either in
> > prefdm or in /usr/bin/gdm
> > 
> 
> Nope, I've made no change to either, and see the same issue on two 
> different FC3 boxes. To be clear, I'm talking about delete and not 
> backspace. INPUTRC is definately not set on either box inside of a 
> gnome-session.

Still, this is not an universal problem. On my two FC3 boxes delete works as  
intended... Also, from gnome-terminal:

[wriede at serve ~]$ echo $INPUTRC
/etc/inputrc

Regards, Willem Riede.