Peter: I have moved that bug report back to jds/gnome/terminal, and have done some research. As I stated in the bug report, it looks like this was fixed in Solaris 10 by adding a patch which makes VTE just use the standard GTK keybindings for the home/end/page-up/page-down keys rather than hardcoding them to require the SHIFT key.
For some reason, this patch was never added to our vermillion builds. It seems to be something fixed in S10 sustaining that never got pushed upstream. I'll spend some time getting this patch to apply to the latest VTE code, if necessary, and submit it upstream to see if we can get this fixed to be more configurable. Brian > And many of us think otherwise. I don't edit inside of a terminal > window as a rule > - if I'm editing files I use an editor. But that's not really the > point - the point is that > we need to make it possible for different modes of operation to exist > so that you > don't have to foce any groups to be utterly miserable. > > (And I don't really know why this particular behaviour irritates me so much. > But > it really does drive me absolutely potty to the point where I want to > pick the system > up and throw it out of the window. And I can adapt to most things.) > >> We probably should have just one bug report, since we can't have it >> behave in both ways. > > Why not? Why not actually let users choose which behaviour they want? > You could even imagine multiple profiles with different settings. > > (You can have it either way in xterm, for example. It's not a menu choice or > anything like that, but it is possible to configure it ether way.) > >> That said, I am happy to move the bug back to the >> jds/gnome/terminal category and clarify in the bug report that we want >> the behavior to be the same as on Solaris 10 and early SXCE builds if >> we think that is the right fix. > > The request - really - is that it be possible to get the old behaviour back. > It > doesn't have to be the default. It doesn't have to be exposed as a menu > choice. > Some manual hack would be entirely adequate. > > And I think that there are multiple bugs here. The issue about whether the > keys > should scroll the terminal window is completely separate from the issue of > what > the application should do if it gets the keystrokes passed through to it, > which > is what Shawn's talking about. > -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: vte-15-scroll-keybinding.diff URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20081202/9d2e10ab/attachment.ksh>
