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Bug 758177 - vte's terminal widget's AT-SPI representation ends in an empty line
vte's terminal widget's AT-SPI representation ends in an empty line
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.42.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-11-16 13:36 UTC by kaura.dev
Modified: 2021-06-10 15:07 UTC
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Description kaura.dev 2015-11-16 13:36:29 UTC 
Vte always puts a newline character at the end of the terminal widget's AT-SPI text representation. As a result orca thinks that there is always an empty line after the true last line of terminal contents. This is confusing, because when using orca, programs' status messages (which are often printed on the last line) are not readable from the last line, but the user has to navigate one line upwards to find the real content.

I wish vte wouldn't put this newline character at the end of the AT-SPI representation string.
Comment 1 Samuel Thibault 2015-11-16 14:25:32 UTC 
FTR, brltty avoids the issue by ignoring any trailing \n, so either way is fine for it.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 15:07:23 UTC 
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