unable to use keyboard context key

[Y W Sing]

In gnome-terminal the context key (the key left to right-Ctrl) would pop up the right-click menu. However it does not work in terminator.

FYI, I've got the "TypeError" error message from terminator output just after pressing the context key:

ywsing@pct120:/opt/terminator-0.9$ ./terminator

(terminator:6331): Vte-WARNING **: Error compiling regular expression "[[:<:]](news:|telnet:|nntp:|file:/|https?:|ftps?:|webcal:)//([-A-Za-z0-9]+(:[-A-Za-z0-9,?;.:/!%$^*&~"#']+)?@)?[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?(/[-A-Za-z0-9_$.+!*(),;:@&=?/~#%']*[^]'.}>)
,\"])?[[:>:]]/?".
TypeError: on_vte_popup_menu() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given)

I have attached a patch that works on my machine.

My version is terminator 0.9 in Ubuntu 8.04 (i686). Thanks for your help.

[Y W Sing (stupidsing)]

Chris can you retry the patch... I am not sure I generated it right before in the email. Was my first time to do a patch.

This attachment from 'bzr diff' should be correct.

[Nicolas Valcarcel (nvalcarcel)]

Doesn't work for me on the development version, i'm not getting the error or the menu after aplying the patch.

[Y W Sing (stupidsing)]

Can you pop up the menu by context key in gnome-terminal?

I wonder if vte is calling on_vte_popup_menu after the keypress in your side. This could be easily found out by inserting a print. And I can confirm on_vte_keypress() is called with keyname = "Menu" for the keypress.

My lib versions, if this could matter:

$ dpkg -l|grep vte
ii libvte-common 1:0.16.13-1ubuntu1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0 - comm
ii libvte9 1:0.16.13-1ubuntu1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.0 - runt
ii python-vte 1:0.16.13-1ubuntu1 Python bindings for the VTE widget set

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

YWSing: could you run "xev" and then press that key? When I do that, this is one of the entries I get:

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001,
    root 0x59, subw 0x0, time 287859852, (72,-16), root:(79,40),
    state 0x0, keycode 227 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

I suspect that this is different to what yours generates, but I have no idea why (and the fact that my keyboard is generating an event different from "Menu" doesn't mean that your patch is wrong.

[Y W Sing (stupidsing)]

Chris, I got this:

KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x58, subw 0x0, time 29684688, (-467,156), root:(371,208),
    state 0x0, keycode 117 (keysym 0xff67, Menu), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3a00001,
    root 0x58, subw 0x0, time 29684745, (-467,156), root:(371,208),
    state 0x0, keycode 117 (keysym 0xff67, Menu), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Actually it worked in two computers I used (both Ubuntu 8.04).

[Thomas Hurst (tom.hurst)]

This was fixed in r462 (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~gnome-terminator/terminator/trunk/revision/462)