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#135 Select All not working correctly in Linux Mint-21.x

Tony Houghton — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:14:43 -0000

You can do a feature request on github if you like, it might help me not to forget about it.

#135 Select All not working correctly in Linux Mint-21.x

JP Vossen — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:44:25 -0000

Damn, I knew it moved to GitHub, I went here because I looked up my old ticket about "select all" and this is where it was. Sorry. Want me to re-create in Github? And/or create a feature request for writing scroll-back to disk?

As always, thanks for the quick reply and awesome tool.

#135 Select All not working correctly in Linux Mint-21.x

Tony Houghton — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:27:43 -0000

The primary site for ROXTerm is now realh/roxterm on github. I suppose I should change the SF site to redirect people, but I just never got around to it.

Anyway, the change in behaviour is caused by VTE. https://gitlab.gnome.org/search?search=vte_terminal_select_all&nav_source=navbar&project_id=1893&group_id=8&scope=issues. It's supposed to be a temporary hack to prevent a crash in gnome-terminal, but they've failed to fix the issue in a reasonable time.

There is a function to write the entire buffer to a (file) stream, so I could support that in ROXTerm. I'm quite busy at the moment though, so it might take a while before I can get around to it.

Select All not working correctly in Linux Mint-21.x

JP Vossen — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:08:14 -0000

"Edit > Select All" now seems to select only the visible view-port text, no matter where the scroll-back is positioned. So the result is "select all visible" and not "select all in scroll-back" as intended. See https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422639/thread/51ae059d/.

Environment:
FAILS as below on: ROXTerm 3.12.1 from PPA on Linux Mint-21.0 and 21.2 (base = jammy).
Works as expected on: ROXTerm 3.12.1 from PPA on Linux Mint-20.3 (base = focal).

To reproduce:
1. Run several commands so that output scrolls off the screen into the scroll-back buffer.
2. "Edit > Select All".
3. "Edit > Copy".
4. Paste into an editor.

Result: I only get the text from the visible screen.
Expected: I want the text from the entire scroll-back buffer.

Hack-around? Is there a way to get ROXTerm to (continuously?) write the scroll-back to disk, in addition to RAM? I'd love that for some other reasons as well.

#116 3.1.x segfaults on --fork

Tony Houghton — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 15:16:44 -0000

The latest version of VTE caused a new bug which crashes all roxterm tabs/windows when you close one with the GUI, which I fixed in 3.7.2

That seems to be the problem indeed. I build 3.7.2 and everything run smoot again. Thanks

#116 3.1.x segfaults on --fork

Tony Houghton — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:50:11 -0000

I can't reproduce this here. Is it definitely triggered by --fork? The latest version of VTE caused a new bug which crashes all roxterm tabs/windows when you close one with the GUI, which I fixed in 3.7.2. If it isn't that please report this on github with exact steps to reproduce the problem. If you have debugging symbols available and can get a backtrace with gdb that would be great. The easiest way to do that is to run ./AppRun --debug, which will also build it first if necessary, but you may need to install some extra packages for the headers etc it needs.

#116 3.1.x segfaults on --fork

Tony Houghton — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:26:19 -0000

I have the same problem with version 3.6.1

[ 1142.501596] roxterm[5858]: segfault at 18 ip 000055f1bfa90840 sp 00007ffc68533108 error 4 in roxterm[55f1bfa7c000+3a000]
[ 1219.175970] roxterm[9111]: segfault at 81 ip 00007f6f0518c91d sp 00007ffc91ce0360 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.5800.0[7f6f05159000+82000]

#125 [gtk 3.20] broke geometry of window

Tony Houghton — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:53:37 -0000

fwiw, you can crudely workaround initial sizing with devilspie. e.g.

(if (is (application_name) "ROXTerm") (geometry "650x450") )

#129 Does not set $VTE_VERSION

Tony Houghton — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:40:41 -0000

Do you have a github account? I've migrated roxterm development to there and this bug is #130.

Roxterm still uses g_spawn_async to launch the child process, so switching to vte_pty_spawn_async or vte_terminal_spawn_async may fix this, but those two functions are marked only available since vte 0.48, which is quite new; newer than when you opened this bug I think. So how did vte used to modify the env before then? In the child setup function perhaps? And why isn't it working in roxterm?

#125 [gtk 3.20] broke geometry of window

Tony Houghton — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:36:06 -0000

I notice that this patch seems to cause crashes a lot when moving tabs in/out of the window. Any fix for that?