Peter Tribble wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:05 AM, dick > hoogendijk<dick at nagual.nl> wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:17:29 +0100 > > Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > On 21 Jul 2009, at 19:03, Karl Dalen wrote: > >> > 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. > > > > Why's that the opposite behaviour? Ever since I > followed this advice I > > have PgUp/PgDn, Home, End act precisely the way > they should act. In > > xterm, but also in Gnome terminal. > > Read the original request. Which is that when you hit > the PgUp key it should > scroll the gnome-terminal window without having to > press shift as well. > > What keypresses are caught by gnome-terminal and > which are passed through > to the application underneath is hard-coded in the > vte source. >
Thanks for the information. So it is vte that handles what key press events are sent to the gnome-terminal. That explains why I couldn't find the test for SHIFT-Page up/down event handling when I browsed through the gnome-terminal source some time ago. Was it hard to rebuild vte from source ? I just wish they would have made Gnome more user friendly and customizable. Both CDE and Linux KDE support this type of customization. We have to use xterm where we can easily handle such key bindings in .Xdefaults but we would prefer to use gnome-terminal in open solaris. I never understood why many new applications, particularly in Gnome chose not to support customization through .Xdefaults files which has always worked fine and has been a uniform way of customizing X applications. I also wonder why Gnome does not support saving and restoring the terminal windows you have opened when you log out and in again like CDE does. /Karl D -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
