Bug#841888: libvte-2.90-9: Cannot use Shift-Home / Shift-End / etc. shortcuts inside client applications

[Andre Rodier]

Package: libvte-2.90-9
Version: 1:0.36.3-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

libvte comes with keyboard shortcuts pre-configured, even if we do not want to use them. Therefore, it is not possible to entirely use some applications shortcuts in editors, like emacs or vi.

These keyboard shortcuts need to be completely disabled, and delegated to clien applications like Gnome Terminal, etc.

   * When using emacs (or vi) in console mode, keyboard shortcuts like Shift-Home or Shift-End are captured by the terminal, and hidden to Emacs (or vi).
   * Cannot use these shortcuts in any console application!
   * These keyboard shortcuts should be left to the users. This is already possible with Gnome Terminal, I am sure we could remove them.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libvte-2.90-9 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                2.19-18+deb8u6
ii  libcairo-gobject2    1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii  libcairo2            1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.48.0-1~bpo8+1
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  libncurses5          5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.8-3
ii  libtinfo5            5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libvte-2.90-common   1:0.36.3-1
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1

libvte-2.90-9 recommends no packages.

libvte-2.90-9 suggests no packages.

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