The control characters do not work after a system reinstall

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 22, 2017, at 3:51 AM, Kaj Persson <70147persson at 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