Bug#549593: libvte9: Same escape sequence generated for Home/Ctrl+Home/Alt+Home and End/Ctrl+End/Alt+End

[Robert]

Package: libvte9
Version: 1:0.22.2-1
Severity: normal

There is no special escape sequence generated for combination of Ctrl or Alt with the Home or End key.

Observed both in xfce4-terminal and gnome-terminal.
Home          ^[OH
Ctrl+Home  ^[OH
Alt+Home   ^[OH
End            ^[OF
Ctrl+End    ^[OF
Alt+End     ^[OF

In xterm, different escape codes are generated:
Home          ^[[H
Ctrl+Home  ^[[1;5H
Alt+Home   ^[[1;3H
End            ^[[F
Ctrl+End    ^[[1;5F
Alt+End     ^[[1;3F


Output is generated in bash by pressing Ctrl+v and the key combination.

Problem could be the same as in following upstream bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157448




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'intrepid'), (500, 'stable'), (70, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvte9 depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.26.0-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                     2.9-12         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.8.6-2+b1     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1            2.6.0-4        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.3.9-4.1      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.20.1-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.16.1-2       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090523-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.24.0-3+b1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libvte-common             1:0.22.2-1     Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 

libvte9 recommends no packages.

libvte9 suggests no packages.

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