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vte package

Ctrl-End and End are indistinguishable on gnome-terminal

Bug #342436 reported by David Fraser
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gnome Virtual Terminal Emulator
New
Medium
vte (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

In gnome-terminal, there seems to be no difference between pressing End and Ctrl-End (see the showkey results below; as a separate bug, showkey only seems to work when running as root)

root@golg:~# showkey -a

Press any keys - Ctrl-D will terminate this program

^[OF 27 0033 0x1b
   79 0117 0x4f
   70 0106 0x46
^[OF 27 0033 0x1b
   79 0117 0x4f
   70 0106 0x46

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Got the same behavior here with xterm, uterm, etc and gnome-terminal i don't think this is a gnome-terminal issue, could you test the same as well? thanks.

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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David Fraser (davidf) wrote :

On xterm:

davidf@golg:~$ showkey -a

Press any keys - Ctrl-D will terminate this program

^[[F 27 0033 0x1b
         91 0133 0x5b
         70 0106 0x46
^[[1;5F 27 0033 0x1b
         91 0133 0x5b
         49 0061 0x31
         59 0073 0x3b
         53 0065 0x35
         70 0106 0x46

ETerm:

davidf@golg:~$ showkey -a

Press any keys - Ctrl-D will terminate this program

^[[8~ 27 0033 0x1b
         91 0133 0x5b
         56 0070 0x38
        126 0176 0x7e
^[[8^ 27 0033 0x1b
         91 0133 0x5b
         56 0070 0x38
         94 0136 0x5e

konsole:

davidf@golg:~$ showkey -a

Press any keys - Ctrl-D will terminate this program

^[[F 27 0033 0x1b
         91 0133 0x5b
         70 0106 0x46
^[[1;5F 27 0033 0x1b
         91 0133 0x5b
         49 0061 0x31
         59 0073 0x3b
         53 0065 0x35
         70 0106 0x46

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David Fraser (davidf) wrote :

However evilvte and xfce4-terminal both show the same problem as gnome-terminal:

^[OF 27 0033 0x1b
   79 0117 0x4f
   70 0106 0x46
^[OF 27 0033 0x1b
   79 0117 0x4f
   70 0106 0x46

This indicates that the bug is in vte

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David Fraser (davidf) wrote :

Switching to vte as that's where the underlying bug must be

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in vte:
status: Unknown → New
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

setting this to triaged, thanks for linking the report.

Changed in vte (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in vte:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail) wrote :

vte 0.36 (gnome 3.12) is going to fix this.

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