Description of problem: Pressing SHIFT+F1, SHIFT+F2, SHIFT+F3, SHIFT+F4 no longer works in vte-0.16.6. This bug occurred back when I upgraded from FC6 to F7, but I just now got around to filing a bug. SHIFT+F5 and higher work just fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.16.6-1.fc7 How reproducible: Always Actual results: Wrong xterm map is being sent to the terminal. Expected results: Additional info: vte-0.14.2-1.fc6 works just fine. This was the last update for FC6. I am using this on my F7 system as a workaround for now.
Can you test with vte-0.16.8 from updates-testing repo for f7?
I upgraded to 0.16.8 and after starting up Terminal (XFCE) my program could not recognize SHIFT+F4 anymore, just like with 0.16.6. Upon rolling back to 0.14.2 and restarting Terminal my SHIFT+F4 worked again. I want to add that xterm (which doesn't use vte of course) sends the SHIFT keys in question correctly.
Update: vte-0.16.9 still suffers from this bug.
I'm not sure if anyone is actively pursuing this bug, but my company is attempting to switch from SCO Unix to RHEL. I already have a test RHEL 5 system and I notice that the vte package is only 0.14.0 so that will not cause any problems. However, if RHEL 6 or higher switch to the 0.16.0 version our commercial software (terminal based) will not be able to be operated correctly under an X environment. I guess at that time I will be forced to debug the issue myself... or force our customers to stay out of X.
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It seems that there needs to be some straightening out of the Xterm spec. Someone (I didn't go look to see who) made a #if define around an area and seems to have forgotten about it. Well this was the cause of the problem. Looking at the source for vte-0.16.13/src/keymap.c:1440 and below, there is a #if 1 define. The #if'd statement has a comment that states "Stuff a "1", a semicolon and the modifier in right before that last character, matching Xterm." while the old code that actually matches Xterm states "Stuff the modifier in right before that last character, matching what people expect." After removing the #if 1 defined code, leaving the old code, and recompiling the RPM everything works normally and according to the xterm spec. If anyone has a source for the reason behind this change I'd love to see it, as the current code goes against the xterm spec as I know it. Otherwise, please remove the #if 1 defined area. I will make a patch if I must, but it's an easy 6 line removal. I will also pursue upstream if I must (but this appears to be upstream to begin with).
After further investigating, I found the change. http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/vte?view=revision&revision=1391 It appears that this change was made for the CTRL+Arrow keys, but this change has a negative side effect on the SHIFT+F1-F4 keys. A better patch needs to be made to fix both issues.
(In reply to comment #6) > It seems that there needs to be some straightening out of the Xterm spec. > Someone (I didn't go look to see who) made a #if define around an area and seems > to have forgotten about it. Well this was the cause of the problem. > > Looking at the source for vte-0.16.13/src/keymap.c:1440 and below, there is a > #if 1 define. The #if'd statement has a comment that states "Stuff a "1", a > semicolon and the modifier in right before that last character, matching Xterm." > while the old code that actually matches Xterm states "Stuff the modifier in > right before that last character, matching what people expect." After removing > the #if 1 defined code, leaving the old code, and recompiling the RPM everything > works normally and according to the xterm spec. > > If anyone has a source for the reason behind this change I'd love to see it, as > the current code goes against the xterm spec as I know it. Otherwise, please > remove the #if 1 defined area. I will make a patch if I must, but it's an easy 6 > line removal. I will also pursue upstream if I must (but this appears to be > upstream to begin with). Please forward this upstream to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ product vte. Thanks
Added upstream bug report reference.
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