[CentOS] Gnome terminal oddity

I have my gnome-terminal (under Fedora, not CentOS) set to
Control-H and Escape Sequence; that works fine for all users here, and
does what I'm guessing you want.

Hi,
I believe it is probably something to do with the profile settings of your user.

Does .bash_profile contain these lines?

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc

Does .bashrc contain these lines?

if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc

Are you using the stty command on any of those files?

Are you resetting the value of the TERM variable?

What are the output of "stty" and "echo $TERM" when you run them from
a shell inside your gnome-terminal?

For reference, these are mine:

$ stty
speed 38400 baud; line = 0;
eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?; swtch = M-^?;
ixany iutf8
$ echo $TERM
xterm

You can also compare the output of these commands when you run as root
after doing "su -".

If you create a new user account and log in as the new user in GNOME,
open a new gnome-terminal, do the keys work as you expect them to?

HTH,
Filipe

That setting does not change the observed behaviour. If I su -l
then the Escape Sequence DEL removes the character under the cursor
and left shifts the line. If I am not the superuser, even in
exactly the same gnome terminal window instance, then the DEL has no
evident effect.