Ubuntu
mate-terminal package

  1. Bug #1337195
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1337195

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Oliver Joos (oliver-joos) wrote :

Oh man, it's complicated. Thanks for explaining.

I checked your point 1. I copied libvte.so.9.2800.2 from Debian Sid into Mint 17 and alternate scroll in mate-terminal works!
I totally agree with your point 3!

To summarize: in 2012 Gnome.org stopped support for libvte9 at 0.28. Debian and also Ubuntu took over the support. The Ubuntu patches killed the alternate scroll feature for most terminals, except gnome-terminal which has a built-in solution for it.