Bug#306554: gnome-terminal doesn't honor xmodmap settings

[Vincent Ho]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 04:21:44PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> But it also uses the keysym, as I've shown above.

Yes, I didn't mean that apps never examine the keysyms, only that they
don't themselves get inserted as character values; after all, Left gets
mapped by vte to <0x1b>[D.  That's all I'll say about that, because this
is getting to the point of arguing for the sake of arguing.

> Perhaps, but other GTK applications (e.g. Mozilla) used to take the
> key into account (probably with XLookupString), but IIRC, instead of
> regarding it as a Ctrl-A command, they inserted the 0x01 character.
> In a terminal, there shouldn't be any difference, though.

I've tried a bunch of other GTK apps (gedit, xchat, gaim, epiphany and
even Firefox) and none of them insert ^A when I press Shift+Left. So I'm
pretty convinced that this is not a gnome-terminal/vte bug.  Do you
agree?  Maybe I'm just not doing it correctly though, so if you can tell
me how you managed it, that would be great.


   Vince

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