Bug 1573927

This has been reported upstream here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1758564?comments=all

There is a workaround in comment #1 that works in Fedora 28.

VTE version 0.52 fixed its Python binding of feed_child(), no longer taking that third parameter.

Fedora should patch its Terminator accordingly.

> There is a workaround in [...]

Note that it's not just a workaround, it's the proper fix if underlying VTE is known to be >= 0.52.

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Still a problem in Fedora 30 (and likely 31 as well, but I haven't installed that yet).

I'll take a look at this.  If it's as easy as the fix in the other bug, it should be an easy patch

Thanks.  It really is that easy to fix:

$ diff -u terminal.py.old terminal.py
--- terminal.py.old	2019-02-03 01:40:54.000000000 -0800
+++ terminal.py	2019-12-20 11:53:50.380667587 -0800
@@ -1503,7 +1503,7 @@
 
     def feed(self, text):
         """Feed the supplied text to VTE"""
-        self.vte.feed_child(text, len(text))
+        self.vte.feed_child(text)
 
     def zoom_in(self):
         """Increase the font size"""

 . . . and I just realized that the patch above is for another problem (drag and drop of URLs doesn't work).  The problems are related, and the fix is similar, but they are separate issue.  Sorry for the mix-up.  I suppose I should open another BZ for the drag/drop problem.

FWIW, the drag/drop is in BZ 1574662.

If I'm not mistaken: The simple patch of removing the second parameter, as shown here in comment 7, works with python2 but not with python3.

For python3, something more complex is required, as I've shown in the DND patch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1662544 komment 55. That patch only fixes it at 1 of the 2 (or more?) places feed_child() is used in the source. All of them should be updated according to the DND patch, preferably preserving the comment explaining the nasty hack, that is, something along these lines:

-        self.vte.feed_child(text, len(text))
+        # See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/issues/201.
+        self.vte.feed_child_binary(text.encode(self.vte.get_encoding()))

To be even more precise: "self.vte.feed_child(text)" is a good solution for python 2 (which isn't relevant any more), as well as for python 3 + vte >= 0.60. The nasty hack of using "feed_child_binary" instead is required for the combo if python 3 + vte <= 0.58.

vte 0.60 will be released in Mar 2020. You should not wait for that, but instead go with the "feed_child_binary" hack. In a year or two from now it can be simplified.

*** Bug 1763775 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Put a fix in rawhide.  Egmont, remind me in a year to fix the fix :)

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1424377

Does anyone following this know the proper procedure for closing this?  Set it to RELEASE_PENDING?

IIRC the proper status for fixed issues like this is "CLOSED RAWHIDE" by the way. It's at least what I am usually setting a bug to when I've just built a package and it will land in Rawhide in the foreseeable future. :-)