Unicode code point entry does not function with code point hex value including 'F' about mate-terminal HOT 8 CLOSED

Did this problem also exist in GNOME2? If not, what distro were you using? There may be a patch available.

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I cannot reproduce with mate-terminal 1.4.0, Ubuntu 12.04

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I can reproduce this on MATE 1.4 and 1.5 (1.5 compiled from git) on Ubuntu 12.04 (en-us). The issue appears as well in GNOME terminal 2.32 on a Fedora 14 livecd in a virtual machine but not in older versions because there was no "Find" function in gnome-terminal <= 2.30. In another libvte-based terminal (Lxterminal), the unicode entry works properly.

The issue here seems to be the conflicting keybindings (ctrl+shift+F opens the find dialog but is also used in the unicode entry process (control+shift+[hex digit]).

There is no option to change keybindings for the "Find" command in the terminal's keybinding properties, but setting the dconf key (for MATE 1.5) /org/mate/desktop/interface/can-change-accels to true and changing the keybinding by pressing ctrl+shift+q when the mouse pointer is over the Search->Find... menu item changes the shortcut and avoids this conflict.

This is also a problem if you want to enter a unicode character with a "C" in its code since ctrl+shift+c is assigned to the copy command. (for example: U+00C0 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE) For some reason, entering this works in Lxterminal even though it uses ctrl+shift+c for copy like mate-terminal.

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Sounds like we need an option to change the "find" keybinding. The vast majority of people probably wouldn't be entering unicode chars this way, and those that would, would probably have no issue re-mapping their "find" function to something else.

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Since there isn't any ambiguity, the ideal solution seems to be suppressing
keybindings starting when the person hits Ctrl+Shift+U and ending when the
person releases Ctrl or Shift.

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As a workaround, you can stop holding CTRL and SHIFT once you've inputted the U and then proceed to type the F and 8 without CTRL and SHIFT down. It works on mate-terminal v1.6.1.

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As a workaround, you can stop holding CTRL and SHIFT once you've inputted the U and then proceed to type the F and 8 without CTRL and SHIFT down.

I confirm this. But then there's the question: do we really need to do anything about it, when it's enough to press Ctrl-Shift-U once and no need to hold Ctrl-Shift after that?

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No, it's fine as is.

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