strange behavior in gnome-terminal - need to reset to default

Ray Leventhal ubuntu at swhi.net
Mon Jun 15 22:39:09 UTC 2009


Alexandra Zaharia wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Ray Leventhal<ubuntu at swhi.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been happily using gnome-terminal whenever a CLI was needed. �I'm
>> not sure how it happened, but today everytime I press the letter u, the
>> contents of the clipboard is pasted into the terminal. �As you can
>> imagine, not being able to type sudo is kind of a pain :)
>>
>> I've installed konsole for the time being, but I'd prefer to leave
>> gnome-terminal as my default CLI.
>>
<snip>
> 
> Or you can run gconf-editor and go to the key:
> /apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings/paste and right click on this
> particular key, choose 'Edit Key' and assign it a new or the default
> paste keybinding.
> 
>> and
>> 2) any ideas on how this happened in the first place? �I'd hate to have
>> it happen again.
> 
> No idea. Apart of these two methods to change the keybindings, I'm
> only aware or a command-line equivalent for editing the gconf
> 'registry' using a command called gconfeditor (CLI equivalent to the
> visual way of editing keys, provided by gconf-editor).
> 
> HTH.
> 
Thank you...for some reason I had a brain-freeze on gconf-editor. 
That's the ticket and all's well once again

TY to all.
-Ray





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