[Geany-Users] [Geany] problem with focus on terminal pane

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 05.10.2012 11:46, schrieb Lex Trotman:
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> On 5 October 2012 18:06, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com 
> <mailto:apasotti at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     Either I didn't get how to do it or this is a subtle bug:
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>     I'm on Linux, when I copy something from the editing window with the
>     mouse and I paste in the terminal pane inside geany with the central
>     mouse button, the terminal pane doesn't get the focus, pressing enter
>     makes the copied line(s) disappear in the editing window and doesn't
>     issue an enter in the terminal (this is the expected behaviour).
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>
> Hmm, can see its annoying.
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> I don't think it is expected, middle click is supposed to focus the 
> widget under the cursor and paste.  It does when pasting to VTE from 
> another window, its just within the same window thats a problem 
> although other widgets such as scribble work as expected.
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> Luckily you can left click and then right click without losing the 
> selection as a workaround.
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>     Should I file a ticket?
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> Yes, but I'm not sure if we can change it, depends how deep the 
> behaviour is buried in GTK/X windows/VTE.
>


Surely intercepting the middle click and forcibly focusing the terminal 
widget should be doable (as there's a keybinding for it also)?

Best regards.