Re: Spacebar does not raise command window with wxt terminal (also qt)

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:33:17 -0700
Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> wrote:

> 
> I looked into this a bit.

Thanks for doing the research. I think
this clarifies a lot. 

Is there any hope to fix this? I think this
should treated as a bug. (It also USED to 
work, sometime ago, if my memory serves me 
right...)

> Here is a the relevant section of code in wxt_gui.cpp:
> 
> =====
> /* FIXME : this code should be deleted, and the feature removed or
> handled differently,
>  * because it is highly platform-dependant, is not reliable because
>  * of a lot of factors (WINDOWID not set, multiple tabs in
> gnome-terminal, mechanisms
>  * to prevent focus stealing) and is inconsistent with global
> bindings mechanism ) */ void wxtPanel::RaiseConsoleWindow()
> {
> #ifdef USE_GTK
>    [...  special case code for KDE3]
>    [...  special case code for Gnome console]
> #endif
>    [...  special case code for Win32]
>    [...  special case code for OS2]
> =======
> 
> Furthermore the definition of USE_GTK depends on configuration tests
> for the locally installed gdk.h/gtk.h headers, if any.   I have tried
> building against gtk3 headers -  no success.
> 
> So there  is no wxt terminal support for raise console window on
> linux unless you are using  gtk2 and either  KDE3 or the Gnome
> console terminal. I will add this to the docs somewhere (maybe "known
> limitations"?)
> 
> 
> As to the qt terminal, Tatsuro Matsuoka is correct that despite what
> the terminal help text says there is no special treatment of the
> space key in the actual code. 
> 
> So basically this feature exists consistently only on Windows or X11.
> And even the X11 support may depend on the window manager being used. 
> The documentation should be amended to note that it is not generally
> available on linux.
> 
> 	Ethan
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