Bug#598073: gnome-terminal: allow undiverting mouse events

[Drake Wilson]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.30.2-1
Severity: wishlist

Sometimes, programs run in a GNOME terminal window will use xterm
control sequences to request mouse events.  Unfortunately, this
results in it being impossible to use the mouse to select text for
either selection or clipboard copy/paste into another program, since
the relevant events are being diverted.  Having each program support
resetting the terminal mouse on user request might be nice, but it
would also be nice for the terminal emulator to let the user override
this on a temporary basis.  (This would probably be provided on the
context menu, since right-clicking is the one mouse event that is not
diverted.)

   ---> Drake Wilson

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data          2.30.2-1    Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.30.0-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                        2.11.2-6    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.88-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.28.1-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.24.2-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.20.1-1+b1 The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                      2:1.0.6-1   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.26.2-1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                       2:1.1.1-1   X11 Session Management library
ii  libvte9                      1:0.24.3-1  Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.3.3-3   X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                     1.2.3-3         userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                     2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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