Mouse scroll behaviour

[slither]

Scroll works as expected while using shell (i.e. bash) but in certain applications it just doesn't work.

I'd like to scroll through files content in vim or man pages for that matter. It's just natural (especially after using gnome-terminal for a longer while).

[pingou]

I can scroll using the mouse or the keyboard in vim or in a man page opened in guake without problem.

Which OS are you running ? With which desktop ? And which version of Guake ?

[slither]

I'm running Ubuntu Lucid with GNOME 2.30.2 and Guake from repository (reported by packet manager as 0.4.1-3). Compiz enabled.

In gnome-terminal mouse wheel moves the cursor up/down in vim causing scrolling. In guake cursor does not respond neither to mouse wheel nor touchpad scroll. Same s true for nano and other full-screen programs with scrollable content.

[pingou]

Could you try without compiz for testing ?

[slither]

As you wish...

Nope - nothing changes. Tried disabling Compiz and restarting Guake afterwards.

[slither]

I've just installed the 0.4.1-r1 guake on my fresh Gentoo. The scroll is working as expected, so the problem occurs only on my Ubuntu. Did I mention both my systems are amd64?

[ulidtko]

Patch which make possible scrolling inside less with mouse on Ubuntu

[ulidtko]

I managed to get less scroll contents with mouse scroll on Ubuntu. See the patch attachment:0001-237-fix-mouse-scrolling-in-less-on-Ubuntu.patch

I've took a look into libvte sources in ubuntu package. The function I used in the patch is added by vte-0.26.0/debian/patches/93_add_alt_screen_scroll_toggle.patch. Didn't get exactly what is going on yet, but the patch definitely needs testing on other distros.