I had archived this email, from when we last discussed this issue in March 2007.
Jerry ------------------------------------------------------------ On 02/03/07, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/1/07, Andrew Watkins <andrew at dcs.bbk.ac.uk> wrote: > > Using B57 on a SPARC U10 and I have noticed that the "Page UP", "Page Down", Home, End keys do NOT work in gnome-terminal. > > > > They work fine in other applications dterm, firefox, thunderbird. > > I've complained about this before. It makes the terminal emulator > completely unuseable for me, to the point that I refuse to install > nevada on a machine I actually have to get real work done on, > and on the machines I do run nevada on I have to use xterm. > > How can we get this fixed? It's a "feature" apparently. See my blog post for "problem 3" for the solution: http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/2005/03/solaris-10-tips-and-tricks.html -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hugh McIntyre wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: >> This is a really serious issue. I find that I simply can't do any real work >> on an SXCE or OpenSolaris based system as a result. Having to remember >> to hit an extra key is counterintuitive and a significant detriment to >> productivity, not to mention all the swearing at the machine when you forget >> and get random characters splattered into your window and end up inputting >> the wrong command. > > I have to agree with this. Most people's reaction when PgUp/down does > not work is not going to be "OK, let's try all possible key combination > until one works". Instead it's going to be: "why do the Gnome-terminal > settings suck". > > I may be misremembering, but ISTR the previous discussion thread about > this not working out of the box in Gnome being because Gnome did not > want to reserve Page Up/down for itself, since sometimes applications > running in the terminal might want to use those keys (editors, for example). > > If true, the best solution might not be to just add a config option > without turning this on by default, but instead make sure that PgUp/Down > works in the terminal in cooked mode *always* but gets passed to the app > when in raw mode (or running curses). Or, "replicate the CDE behavior > by default". > > Moinak Ghosh wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote: >>> It is so intriguing that tinny things can have so big impact when it >>> comes >>> to user experience. People are unwilling to press SHIFT: SHIFT + PGUP/DN >>> when this combination can be pressed with one hand !!! > > Yes, shift+PgUp can be pressed with one hand. But only if you twist > your hand uncomfortably. Pressing a single key is easier, and more > importantly, it matches expectations. > > Hugh. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
