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in gnome-terminal can type all letters except 's'

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#1

I can't type letter 's' in gnome-terminal, but other letters I can type. In other places, such as firefox, gedit, I can type letter 's' correctly,what's my problem,why?

#2

Maybe you've got a broken package and need to re-install gnome-terminal and gnome-terminal-data. You can get the deb file(s) from [[COLOR="Red"]here[/COLOR]]("http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gnome-terminal").

#3

johnpason said: I can't type letter 's' in gnome-terminal, but other letters I can type.

In other places, such as firefox, gedit, I can type letter 's' correctly,what's my problem,why?That's a weird one :( I've been thinking about it but I can't think of anything - sorry :(

#4

I'm stumped too. Maybe go into Edit-> Keyboards Shortcuts and make sure the letter 's' hasn't been assigned to anything for that application. My 's' is working fine.

#5

Possible explanation:

I've had keys spontaneously remapped as keyboard shortcuts in gnome-terminal (at least I think it was spontaneous). Check out edit ---> keyboard shortcuts and delete anything mapped to s.

#6

really weird

#7

I've had this as well on occasions, in many versions of gnome. I just close the terminals and open new ones, that usually works. You could try to reset the terminal (echo CTRL-v CTRL-o; stty sane - cut and paste that since you 's' does not work...) as that might work as well.