Confirmed, this is indeed broken. I sent a patch with a fix to the mailing list: https://marc.info/?i=1470900060-25821-1-git-send-email-thuth%40redhat.com
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1611979 Title: GTK+ interface, backspace is broken in the monitor console Status in QEMU: Confirmed Bug description: this has been broken for over 2 years To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1611979/+subscriptions