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Remove Shift+Up/Down scrolling
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RESOLVED: FIXED
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Xfce4-terminal
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General

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Description Egmont Koblinger 2016-09-05 00:45:05 CEST
xfce4-terminal seems to handle (Ctrl+)Shift+Up/Down on its own, it scrolls by a line. I guess it should be removed.

Shift+Up/Down is probably too intrusive, apps might want to use it for their own purpose (e.g. for selecting text in mcedit).

For Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down, it's VTE's built-in behavior is to scroll by a line, pretty much the way xfce4-terminal does it anyway, so there's not much point replicating it.

(Note: There's a small difference with VTE-0.44's smooth (i.e. per-pixel) scrolling feature. VTE's built-in Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down scrolling intentionally snaps the viewport to whole cells, whereas xfce4-terminal's implementation leaves it at partial lines being shown.)

(See also bug 1927.)
Comment 1 Egmont Koblinger 2016-09-05 00:51:41 CEST
Oops, just realized there's a corresponding checkbox in the Prefs window.

Anyway, I don't see too much point in this feature, as well as it's an FYI that with smooth scroll, Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down now works slightly differently than if you disable this option.
Comment 3 Igor editbugs 2016-11-02 11:18:09 CET
Version 0.8.1 has introduced new hidden option MiscUseShiftArrowsToScroll which restores old scrolling behavior; the default value is FALSE i.e. Shift+arrows does not scroll.

Bug #12816

Reported by:
Egmont Koblinger
Reported on: 2016-09-05
Last modified on: 2016-11-02

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