Peter Tribble wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Calum Benson<Calum.Benson at sun.com> wrote:
>> On 21 Jul 2009, at 19:03, Karl Dalen wrote:
>>
>>> In Gnome terminal it seems that the default is to use {shift}-Page up/down
>>> to scroll one window back. In dtterm or xterm no shift is required for
>>> this operation, which is much more convenient when for example working
>>> on a small netbook keyboard where the shift keys are located in an
>>> awkward position. Is there any way I can customize this key binding in
>>> gnome config editor or using Xdefaults?
>> You might find this useful:
>> <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2007-June/003646.html>
>
> That's the opposite behaviour to what's requested.
>
> I'm currently running XFCE where the Terminal had the same problem,
> and ended up modifying the vte source to get the behaviour I wanted:
>
> http://ptribble.blogspot.com/2009/07/sane-terminal-behaviour-with-pgup-and.html
>
> Rebuilding from modified source seems to be the only way to change
> the behaviour, unfortunately.
Sane is in the eye of the beholder :)
If I'm running vim, I want PgUp/PgDown to go to vim; not gnome-terminal.
That's not "recent" or "a fad"; it's been the behaviour of many other
systems for years now and Solaris 10 was one of the few holdouts I've
used where that behaviour didn't exist.
With that said, the real deficiency here is the lack of customisation
capability of GNOME in this area.
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
