Up arrow not working

Alberto Mijares amijaresp at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 20:08:26 CET 2020


This should have gone to the list. Sorry.



On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 2:57 PM Alberto Mijares <amijaresp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Seems like it's correctly registering the down arrow:
> >
> > " keycode 116 (keysym 0xff54, Down) "
> >
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> > So what is the console app that you're using that you're expecting to
> > see the up/down arrow working in?  xfce4-terminal?
> >
>
> Among others, isn't actually working on any application.
>
> > Normally pressing up arrow at the console command line will scroll
> > through your bash history.  Was your bash history wiped out?  (e.g.,
> > "less ~/.bash_history")
>
> I'm not using bash but csh(1). However, as I said, it's the same on
> every app, not only the terminal. Furthermore, I started twm(1), The
> Window Manager, then xterm(1), and the Up arrow works just as
> expected. Now I can be sure that the issue is with xfce.
>
> Now I'd appreciate some hints for debugging this issue within Xfce.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Alberto Mijares


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