Bizarre weirdness with del key and GNOME Terminal

[James Wilkinson]

D. D. Brierton wrote:
> Maybe someone can help both of us out. If it is any help, I can
> definitely confirm that GNOME Terminal behaves properly for me if I'm
> logged in as root or a completely freshly created normal user account.

You say it's a new install. But have you brought your home directory
over from a previous install?

Try moving your .gconf* directories and your .gnome* directories (so
programs that expect them can't find them), log out, then log back in
again.

James.

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