Ctrl + backspace on Gedit

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So finally clean-installed Leap 15.1 with Gnome.

I noticed the Ctrl + backspace function to delete whole word instead of single character seemingly disappeared from Gedit, though Ctrl + left/right arrow still works.
How can one get it back?

Is it also possible to enable it for Terminal emulator?

Firefox still has Ctrl + backspace thing as normal.

Thanks.

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Hi
Just checked here and ctrl+backspace works fine? I don’t think it’s possible for gnome-terminal…

If you create a test user, does the ctrl+backspace issue duplicate?

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Confirmed:
With a new test user created, issue indeed duplicates.

Any help please?

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Hi
Well the only places for GNOME key configuration is dconf-editor, Settings -> Devices -> Keyboard and the GNOME Tweak tool. But since it’s duplicated then it’s something system wide and not desktop related, which those tools I mentioned apply.

Is this a pure GNOME install or do you have other desktop environments installed?

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Pure GNOME install, no other DEs.
And it’s from default openSUSE repositories; I don’t add the GNOME full one.

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Hi
Are you running Wayland? If so switch to Xorg and see if it changes…

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Yes, that was it:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/531639-Ctrl-backspace-not-working

Thanks very much.
Problem was: cat /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager says in last line it’s supposedly using “Xorg”.
In the login window, before actually logging in I clicked the “gear” icon, and first 3 options are GNOME, GNOME classic, GNOME on Xorg. This time I explicitly chose the 3rd one, and issue solved! I guess the first option is the new default “Wayland”…

Issue which caused the confusion: either in “GNOME” and “GNOME on Xorg”, /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager says “Xorg” in the last line.

So, how can one know which display manager is currently in use?
This seems important.

Thanks very much again.

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Hi
The default is wayland these days…

Run the command;


echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
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How is it that there’s still no fix for this on Wayland after years?
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/570

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Excuse me, what exactly did you mean?

I mean, on Leap 15.1, at least in Gnome it’s still true, but not in KDE.
In KDE I found default is X11 with a clean Leap installation.

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Hi
Yes wayland is the default for Gnome, have no idea for other DE’s :wink: