Re: gnome-terminal delete/backspace mess

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> Linus complicated this mess, by violating X's keysym model: keysyms
> are supposed to be the symbols printed on the key, and he caused the
> backspace key to be mapped to delete in the Linux kernel.
> 
> Would that he had just set the Linux default tty parameters to make erase the backspace key.

Actually you should blame Debian not Linus 8) They were the people who finally
had the guts to standardise the setting and beat all their applications
into doing the right thing by their rules - they just picked the non Jim
preferred option 8) Everyone else was so glad they settled the argument
that they happily followed

In a terminal session however the erase/del remapping isnt generally about
application sessions but remote shells