xfce4-terminal is one of the only terminals which sends the same sequence for backspace and ctrl+backpsace (for me by default on auto-detect: ^?) which makes differentiating between those two in .inputrc impossible. E.g. xterm and while using the virtual terminals ^? is sent on a simple backspace and ^H on ctrl-backspace. If there is no argument against sending different sequences, it would be cool to implement this in xfce4-terminal. Also I'm using 0.6.3 which can't be selected in bugzilla yet
Porting to gtk3 (actually the newest vte which is based on gtk3) will fix this. See bug 11207.
Fixed with bug 11207
It finally found it's way to me through apt-get :) Every time it works I rejoice. Unfortunately I always have taught myself to use ctrl+left,ctrl+del instead of ctrl+backspace
How do you like the gtk3 version?
Created attachment 6989 Quick comparison tab style GTK2 vs. GTK3 (In reply to Igor from comment #4) > How do you like the gtk3 version? Honestly the only difference I noticed beside the Ctrl+Backspace working is the same thing which kinda bugged me in Scite back then, i.e. the tabs have twice the height as the GTK versions. But I kinda got used to it, it actually looks kinda nice. Less Win98 style. In contrast to Scite the tabs aren't twice as wide though, but the font still is. I gather this is because GTK3 is more touch-oriented? In my opinion it's wasted space. Maybe I can somehow adjust my theme, but I don't feel like trying right now.
Well, you aren't the only one complaining about the tabs :) I've added an option to make them more slim, it's under Preferences -> Advanced in 0.8.4.
Oh that's cool, thank you. I hope it will be in the repository soon, currently I can only install 0.8.3 and when trying to make from source, after git checkout xfce4-terminal-0.8.4, I get make[3]: Entering directory '/media/d/Downloads/xfce4-terminal/terminal' make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'terminal-enum-types.c', needed by 'xfce4_terminal-terminal-enum-types.o'. Stop. Well, will be up soon enough, I can wait a bit more.
(In reply to xyzdragon from comment #7) > make[3]: Entering directory '/media/d/Downloads/xfce4-terminal/terminal' > make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'terminal-enum-types.c', needed by > 'xfce4_terminal-terminal-enum-types.o'. Stop. Current git master compiles fine for me. I guess you perhaps need to re-run ./autogen.sh followed by a make clean; make?
Created attachment 6990 slim tabs test You were right. Everything works now :)
(In reply to xyzdragon from comment #9) > Created attachment 6990 > slim tabs test > > You were right. Everything works now :) Do you like it better now? Thanks for the screenshot, btw, - it revealed an interesting issue with too big left margin of the tab text; it seems to only appear when there's dynamically-set title.
Yep, I like this better. I didn't even notice the left margin, but you are right. It doesn't seem to be everywhere, it seems like the left margin becomes smaller if the text is longer, that's why I didn't notice it. It's only that wide for "/tmp" What I noticed is the margin between the tabs and the windows, because the right side of the right tab is on top of the center of the scrollbar, which looks a bit weird too me.
I've fixed the left margin issue.