Too easy to accidentally close tabs with shortcut keys

[Bryce Harrington]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

ctrl-shift-q has a confirmation dialog, but ctrl-shift-w does not and can be easily triggered for example if you aim badly when doing ctrl-a (a common key combo in bash and console programs) and also depress the keys above ctrl and a, resulting in a ctrl-shift-q or ctrl-shift-w, the latter of which will instantly close your window, causing interruption of workflow and sometimes loss of work.

Both shortcuts can be disabled thankfully, but I wonder if these shortcut keys ought to be left off by default or remapped.

Intrepid, with gnome-terminal 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

[Arnaud Soyez (weboide)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I think you mean ctrl-shift- instead of ctrl-alt-.
At least to reproduce the steps, I had to use ctrl-shift-a/q/w on Intrepid (gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1).

Can you also tell us what version of gnome-terminal you are using? Are you using Intrepid/Hardy?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:23:24AM -0000, weboide wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better.
>
> I think you mean ctrl-shift- instead of ctrl-alt-.
> At least to reproduce the steps, I had to use ctrl-shift-a/q/w on Intrepid (gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1).

Ah, yes that's correct.

> Can you also tell us what version of gnome-terminal you are using? Are
> you using Intrepid/Hardy?

Intrepid, with gnome-terminal 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

Bryce

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560775

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Confirmed this is now fixed in natty

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".