Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
This is a feature request - or rather a request for the reinstatement of a feature which has (perhaps by accident) disappeared.
It used to be the case that gnome-terminal (up to 2.28.*) would interpret the use of the scroll-wheel as cursor moves if the terminal had been scroll-locked by the application. For example when using vim, [al]pine, less, terminal-based emacs, etc, one could use the scroll wheel as a way to send 5 (I think) up-arrow or down-arrow strokes. I got quite used to this feature - it allows you to move though a file in vim or an email in pine without focusing the terminal - and I miss it now it's gone. The scroll wheel was working in lucid alpha 3 until recently, when gnome-terminal got its 2.28 -> 2.29 version update.
Has this feature been removed by accident, or is there a reason why it was disabled?
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 7 04:46:28 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100224.1)
Package: gnome-terminal 2.29.6-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686
Hello pablomme, that works fine for me with latest updates, could you please test the same with a new user created on your system? that's probably due to a broken profile rather than a bug in gnome-terminal, please test and comment back, Thanks in advance.