[OSM-newbies] software to edit GPS-Tracks on Linux

[Jonas Stein]

what software would you suggest to edit .gpx files on Linux?
It should be able to select a region of the track and delete it.
OSM, Yahoo, or Googlemaps as backgroundlayer would be nice, but not
necessary.

I tried the JOSM GPX Plugin, but it was not comfortable.

viking seems to be pre alpha. Most things did not work proper and 
i could not figure out how to delete an area with gps-positions.

What software would you suggest?

Kind regards,

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Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de>