Gnome Terminal in Hardy does not pass Control-PageDown key

Bug #208291 reported by John Reese
20
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Terminal
Fix Released
Low
gnome-terminal (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Nominated for Hardy by John Reese

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

When using Gnome Terminal, control-pageup is passed perfectly fine to the shell, Vim, etc, but control-pagedown is blindly ignored. I can't even do Ctrl-V+Ctrl-PageDown to see a keycode. This prevents me from effectively using tabs in Vim and other apps.

I have multiple machines that used to work fine in Gutsy, but after upgrading to Hardy one-by-one, they all lost the ability to use control-pagedown in Gnome Terminal.

If it matters, I use the Dvorak keyboard layout, but control-pagedown works perfectly well in Firefox, Epiphany, etc.

Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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mikem (mmazur) wrote :

I have noticed the same thing and it is frustrating.

If it helps any, using the PageDown key on the number pad works.

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Mark Mims (mark-mims) wrote :

gnome-terminal has this key sequence bound to switch gnome-terminal tabs.

It's an easy fix, just:
  -- right click for a context menu, then "Show Menubar"
  -- select "Edit"->"Keyboard Shortcuts"
  -- remap any sequences that you need passed to terminal apps ( backspace disables a shortcut )
  -- hide the menubar again

happy vim tabs again!

This worked for me on hardy with both the gnome-terminal-2.22.1-0ubuntu2 binary package and the head of the gnome-terminal subversion repository from http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-terminal/trunk

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: New → Invalid
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mikem (mmazur) wrote :

Removing the keyboard shortcut is not a solution. If the keyboard shortcut was the root problem then <Control>+Page_Up would also be broken in the same way.

On my Gentoo system, both keyboard shortcuts are still intact and switching between VIM tabs has always worked correctly.

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Damien Thébault (damien-thebault) wrote :

The gnome bug #526088 was marked as duplicate of this one ( #453193 )

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-terminal:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

this is fixed in upstream already, thanks for reporting.

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-terminal - 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

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gnome-terminal (2.24.1-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - accels sent to the terminal if the corresponding gtkaction
      is insensitive (lp: #208291) (lp: #279480)
    - Set title dialog should activate with Enter (lp: #268286)
    - In main menu, Terminal and Tabs have same mnemonic (lp: #279046)
  * debian/patches/05_restore_tab_switching_shortcuts.patch:
    - Dropped, the change is in the release
  * debian/patches/06_add_locale_to_schemas.patch:
    - Add <locale> tag to .schemas
  * debian/patches/99_autoreconf.patch:
    - Refreshed

 -- Pedro Fragoso <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:13:52 +0100

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-terminal (Debian):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Unknown → Low
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