for reasons known only to the developers the action of the "Delete" no
longer works as it used to. Something to do with preventing people
accidentally deleting files in Nautilus.
The primary use for the "Delete" in every system I have used till now
has been for removing the character to the right of the cursor (with
backspace removing character to left of the cursor position)
This usage is pretty well essential for text editing in any app I can
think of. Now if I hit "Delete" gnome 3 switches me to a workspace to
left of current workspace, I am of course working in Classic mode.
Ctrl-Delete is supposed to give the old action, but doesn't as that
deletes the whole word to the right of the cursor. The numeric keypad
"Del" does work as required so I really need to be able to tell
"Delete" to work as another "Del"
I have been looking at xmodmap but as I'm suffering from a very heavy
cold cannot make much sense of the manpage.
If anyone has found a permanent fix* for this cockup or can tell me how
to remap the key I'll be most obliged. Googling only provides solutions
to the way it works in Nautilus, which didn't work for me as it
happens. I'm not in the least worried about how the Delete key works
in Nautilus 'cos I almost never use it, that sort of thing is done
using mc.
Can't even file a bug report as it is doing what the developers
intended and they aren't listening to any complaints about their
decisions.
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John Lewis
using Debian sid
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