I have used Fedora (various versions) for many years.

After a while away from Linux, I recently installed Ubuntu 10.4 on my home PC.

Here is the problem: The terminal STINKS in general. Unfortunately, it appears that nothing has changed in the last 3 years in this particular area. I remember now that the terminal (keyboard mappings, colors) was one of the reasons I went with Fedora for my home PC a few years ago.

Short question: WHY is Ubuntu's so different, and why hasn't it been improved? I have a standard 104-key keyboard, yet when I try to edit with VI, the arrow keys don't map properly. They certainly did in Fedora, with no help from me, even 3 years ago! You'd think that user feedback alone would have fixed this over 3 years time.

Anyhow, how do I fix it?

The white background, minimal color terminal isn't very good. But I really need help getting the various keys (delete, home, end, arrow keys) to map properly.

I went with Ubuntu because it seemed to be more ready "out of the box" and I don't need cutting edge like Fedora offers. I wanted more stability, etc.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Matthew

By terminal do you mean gnome-terminal? For this, you can edit your profile preferences to change certain aspects of your experience.

The rest of it is probably affected by your systems .bashrc and .vimrc files. Feel free to copy those files over from Fedora =)

Are you using Vi or Vim?

There's an inputrc file which also affects the mapping of keys.