> On Nov 22, 2017, at 3:51 AM, Kaj Persson <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > > After a reinstall of Debian (ver. 9) and GNUCash the control characters do > not work in GNUCash. Common characters (like letters, figures etc.) behave > normally when I write them in a field, but when I need a control character > (e.g. backspace, home, delete) nothing happens. The cursor does not move and > the character is unaffected. However when using TAB and shift+TAB it behaves > normally and the cursor moves to the next (or previous) field. I can position > the cursor as usual with a mouse click, but nothing happens when I try to > edit the text with a control character at the chosen position. Inserting text > ia however working fine. And this is true for all fields of a transaction. > The date field can be edited normally via the characters +, -, m etc. > > Other programmes (emacs, gramps, thunderbird et al) behave normally and there > all the control characters act as expected. > > Any suggestion, anyone?
That would be a Gtk2 problem, not a GnuCash one. Of the packages you mention only GnuCash is still using Gtk2. The others all use Gtk3. I suggest you try one of the channels described at https://www.debian.org/support <https://www.debian.org/support>. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
