GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 782327
gedit terminal plugin: no keyboard shortcut to switch between terminal and main editing window
Last modified: 2020-11-24 10:17:30 UTC
This bug report concerns the "embedded terminal" plugin of Gedit 3.18.3, running on Mint 18.1. The problem is that I have no keyboard shortcut to switch between the terminal window and the text editing window. I used to work with Gedit 3.10.4 which worked fine: I could switch between one and the other using the shortcut Ctrl+F9. On pressing Ctrl+F9, the terminal appears and the active prompt goes inside the terminal. In other words, once I type Ctrl+F9 and the terminal appears, if I type something, it goes inside the terminal, not in the text editing part. If I press Ctrl+F9 again, the terminal disappears, and the active prompt returns to the text edition. In the newer version, Gedit 3.18.3, the terminal does appear upon pressing Ctrl+F9, but the active prompt stays in the text editing part. That is, if I type something at this moment, it just goes into the text file I am editing. I do not know of any way to type something in the terminal without using the mouse and clicking inside the terminal first. Once I do so and have my active prompt inside the terminal, if I press Ctrl+F9, then the terminal does not disappear as it should. Instead, ";5~" appears at the place of the prompt in the terminal. I find this very annoying, and would greatly appreciate that this problem be solved.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 700899 ***
I don't think that it is a duplicate. Bug 700899 refers to Gedit 3.8.x. Even the actual keyboard shortcut has changed. As I say in the report, Gedit 3.10 works fine. And now an indeed very similar bug is back. Bug 700899 has been fixed, and now the problem is back for a probably different reason.
Mass-closing of all gedit-plugins bugzilla tickets. Special "code" to find again all those gedit-plugins bugzilla tickets that were open before the mass-closing: 2bfe1b0590a78457e1f1a6a90fb975f5878cb60064ccfe1d7db76ca0da52f0f3 By searching the above sha256sum in bugzilla, the gedit contributors can find again the tickets. We may be interested to do so when we work on a specific area of the code, to at least know the known problems and possible enhancements. We do this mass-closing because bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org.