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gnome-terminal package

  1. Bug #1688528
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Comment 0 for bug 1688528

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Guram Savinov (guram-savinov) wrote :

Bug is based on my last comments from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen/+bug/106995

Environment:
Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
gnome-terminal 3.6.2
libvte 0.34.9
screen 4.1.0

The problem is:
1. screen is running from gnome-terminal
2. mouse wheel scrolling generates up/down events which ends up as bash history scrolling instead of gnome-terminal history scrolling
3. if run cat command, then mouse wheel ends up as esc-keys: ^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B

Gnome-terminal's option about alternate screen is not working anymore in trusty ubuntu release, but it has been working in precise release.
As I said in bug 106995: gnome-terminal's option about alternatre screen doesn't do anything with vte, so it's useless, but if I understand this patch in vte right it set alternate screen option true value on initialization automatically.

commit 9f8c1b88dcd880c2d9e78c93521ee755560a9275
Author: Christian Persch <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Sep 30 23:00:09 2013 +0200

I suspect that problem is in gnome-terminal, because this problem doesn't exists in screen run from xterm or rxvt terminal.