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Bug 117240 - gnome-terminal/tabs/focus
gnome-terminal/tabs/focus
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
: 145302 319317 320411 340051 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-11 21:32 UTC by q
Modified: 2006-04-29 00:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description q 2003-07-11 21:32:00 UTC
if you use tabs in gnome-terminal and click on the tab it will
focus the title of the tab, with wich you can't do anything.

it should give the focus to the terminal. so that you can use it
right away, without clicking into it first.

this ony happens if you click on the active tab; 
or double click one.
other applications using tabs, like epiphany, give the focus
to the window as soon as you do something (in this case hitting up/down keys)
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-07-11 21:36:55 UTC
epiphany (and every other tab in every other app ;-))
works the same way for me. if this is changed it should be changed
in gtk. I believe I tested on Windows XP a while back 
and it also worked the same way.

You need to be able to focus tabs, for keyboard navigation, and 
standardly clicking a focusable widget focuses that widget.
Tabs have the exception that clicking them while they are 
inactive doesn't focus them, but you can still focus the 
active tab. Just don't double click the tabs. ;-)

Anyhow, a gtk request if anything. Nothing special about the terminal
in this area.
Comment 2 John Ellson 2005-04-03 15:44:08 UTC
(I'm coming to this from Redhat bug #149327 which is the same bug as this, I
believe).

- tabs in firefox don't have this behavior  (I'm just providing a counter
example to "every other app").

- the main text area in epiphany doesn't need focus in the same way that a
terminal does (no character input is the difference I think?).

- Even if the tabs accept focus, they should relinquish it in
focus-follows-mouse mode.

- Gnome-terminal tabs take focus from click-drag, not just double-click.

- Its a bug because it surprises the user when the mouse is over the terminal
window and characters are not accepted.

I'll try reporting this against Gtk
Comment 3 John Ellson 2005-04-03 16:12:03 UTC
Reported against Gtk2:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=153221
Comment 4 Kjartan Maraas 2005-08-15 22:44:20 UTC
*** Bug 145302 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Olav Vitters 2005-10-20 16:39:29 UTC
*** Bug 319317 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Olav Vitters 2005-11-20 13:21:27 UTC
*** Bug 320411 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Olav Vitters 2006-04-29 00:02:58 UTC
*** Bug 340051 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***