With geany 1.23.1, running on ubuntu 14.04 LTS, key modifiers like control or alt don't work when in the multiterm terminal window. I am using a non-USA keyboard layout, but even when I switch to a USA layout it doesn't help. Normal keystrokes work but it's a hassle that control-C, etc don' t work well. What can I do to help you debug this problem?
I think Geany steals those. It would require to do whatever kind of trickery the built-in VTE does to be able to process keyboard shortcuts that Geany also uses for other stuff, I guess.
I looked a bit at the vte sources but it seems it's not really a trick, but in stead the fact that that is a full gtk widget with it's own key handler. I guess that the plugin API filters out the shortcut keys sent to the plugins?
Doens't work for me either :( Any progress on this issue so far?
@joao-gabriel it requires fixing Geany itself. Even without Geany's builtin Terminal, it still steals keybindings from the plugin, otherwise it would "Just Work" like any libvte-based terminal. I would think a well-written patch to Geany to fix this issue would be accepted.
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