Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 237164
sometimes "Open Link" shows up as "Open Terminal" instead
Last modified: 2008-05-06 21:31:40 EDT
Description of problem: Sometimes, the right-click context menu in the terminal shows "Open Terminal" instead of "Open Link" when you right-click on a URL in the terminal window. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-terminal-2.18.0-1.fc7 vte-0.16.1-1.fc7 How reproducible: sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right click a URL in a terminal window 2. First entry in the context menu is "Open Terminal" instead of "Open Link" Actual results: Selecting the first context menu item opens a new terminal. Expected results: The first context menu item should be "Open Link" and should launch a browser window or tab with that URL. Additional info: This used to work fine. Somewhere in an FC6 update and also with F7 development, the behavior changed and sometimes the context menu is incorrect. This is annoying since I end up opening terminals very often now by accident.
Can you give some examples of urls that do not work ? Does the terminal still recognize the urls and underlines them on mouse-over ?
It doesn't matter what the URL is--all URLs are recognized as such, and they are underlined on a mouse-over. It is just that the right-click menu doesn't change for some reason. Perhaps, but I haven't checked this, the right-click is happening at a different cursor location than the mouse-over? Did the box of pixels that are recognized as the mouse-over get smaller and it is just me accidentally not clicking inside that box? Something definately changed...
What I notice is that url are not recognized anymore once they were scrolled off. scrolling back up and mousing over does not underline them.
That's a separate bug then, because 90% of the URLs I click on are in emails in Mutt, and I cannot scroll the terminal running my Mutt session. I think that maybe the focus area got smaller. If I move the I-beam cursor up one pixel at a time, the top of the I-beam overlaps the bottom of the text for 4 pixels before the underline is activated on the 5th. Moving up to lines 5-10 keeps the text underlined, and then on the 11th line up the underline goes away. At this point the bottom of the I-beam cursor is just about in the middle of the text line.
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