Mouse scroll wheel does not work in apps using curses. about mate-terminal HOT 22 CLOSED

gnome-terminal 2.32 or 3.x ?

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$quoted_author = "Stefano Karapetsas" ;

gnome-terminal 2.32 or 3.x ?

Ah, I had tested with the gnome-terminal already on my system but...

$ gnome-terminal --version
GNOME Terminal 3.0.1

Downloaded the Ubuntu Natty version of gnome-terminal...

$ /tmp/gnome-term/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --version
GNOME Terminal 2.32.1

... and can confirm that scrolling insides curses based apps works there
too.

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What distro are you using?

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$quoted_author = "Steve Zesch" ;

What distro are you using?

Ubuntu 11.10

mate from 'http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu oneiric main'

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This was a feature that the Ubuntu devs patched to gnome-terminal. It relies on a patched version of vte that, once again, the Ubuntu devs patched. Since these patches were either not contributed or rejected upstream, our code-base doesn't contain them. In the future, the Ubuntu devs will have to apply these patches to mate-terminal.

In other words, we can't build these because not every distro includes the patched version of vte that this feature requires.

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Is it possible to take source code of this patch and add this code to mate-terminal?
If this is possible, please do this.
Thank you.

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The code relies on patched versions of packages that we don't develop. In this case, vte.

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Why gnome-terminal 2.32 in Mate (without Gnome) can scroll by mouse wheel, but mate-terminal can't scroll? I think difference only between this two terminal programs. Or I am wrong?
If gnome-terminal source in Ubuntu repo have differences with original gnome-terminal, why we can't get Ubuntu's source of gnome-terminal and port some parts of code to mate-terminal?

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As I've previously stated, we cannot use Ubuntu's code because it relies on Ubuntu specific patches to other pieces of software like vte. If we were to use Ubuntu's code, then mate-terminal would fail to build for Debian, Fedora, Archlinux, Gentoo, etc.

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Agreed, patching VTE is... not my first choice. I'd be very happy to see this issue addressed cleanly. Mouse wheel is a big time saver, almost anywhere it's used.

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+1! Still a issue in mate-terminal 1.4.0.
If someone already forwarded this issue upstream (to Ubuntu, Debian, VTE, ...) then please leave a link here. Otherwise I will try.

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I have not looked into this closely so I'm not sure how deeply "mate-terminal would fail to build for..." goes. I'm running Mint 13 with MATE and I simply installed gnome-terminal from the repos; Works fine, nothing else broke.

Just for fun, I opened a lengthy document in both gnome-terminal and mate-terminal simultaneously. Scrolls with wheel in gnome-, doesn't in mate-; otherwise, both "terminals" work identically and look identical.

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thanks for tip about gnome-terminal :)

PS Gentoo has this feature too.

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Guys, does anyone here have the similar patch ready for MATE? Or at least an instruction about what to patch?
I'd like to patch mate-terminal 1.8 in Mint 17 (it's Ubuntu-based distro).

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I observe this issue for quite a while, but had not time to look into source code yet. There are patches, but not only for gnome-terminal but also for libvte. See here:
https://launchpad.net/bugs/947892
https://launchpad.net/bugs/358796

I'd also be very happy about a solution for Mint/Mate! So if you manage to port these patches to Mint 17 please write again. I'd definitely find the time to test them.

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These two reports seem to be about xfce terminal - I'm afraid this won't help much.

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Though I've followed some links and stumbled upon this upstream VTE bug report which clearly indicates that the Ubuntu patch have been finally accepted into the upstream VTE code on 2013-09-30.

Indeed, Ubuntu Trusty's VTE changelog states:

• Remove debian/patches/93_add_alt_screen_scroll_toggle.patch: implemented
  upstream (differently).

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One thing I can't understand: why this scrolling works in mate-terminal in Debian when there are no vte patches?

I have LMDE with MATE 1.6 and vte without that alt.scrolling feature, and I also have Debian Testing with MATE 1.8 and vte with that feature already in the code. In both systems, scrolling in e.g. man works fine.

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Since MATE 1.8 is now available in Ubuntu 14.10 repositories, I've filed a bug report here. You can comment and/or click on "Does this bug affect you?" link.

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Thanks for filing the bug!
Let's continue there...

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I've made a patch for VTE library (instead of just MATE terminal), it's here.

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Please don't forget about Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release. For this release mate-terminal patch is needed because patching vte in this release is impossible IMO.

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