> I found a hacky workaround - add this to your $PS1: The workaround of resetting relevant settings from the prompt has already been mentioned – although without showing a concrete example.
> Given how randomly it happens, I believe there is a real bug in Terminator I'm about 99.999% sure that this is _not_ a bug in Terminator (VTE). It is believed to properly execute the relevant escape sequences it receives. (Can you reproduce the issue with xterm, urxvt, konsole...? I bet you can.) > but if you want to force the broken state, just open 'mc' and run 'pkill mc' from another terminal, your scrolling will be broken. Yup, in this case mc asks the terminal to switch to a special mode, and due to getting killed, it does not ask the terminal to leave that mode. Nothing new here, exactly what has already been concluded in this thread. > run e.g 'mc > trace.txt'. Then type 'exit', hit return, and mc will quit. You will get all the escape sequences from mc in trace.txt to inspect. Can you really reproduce the issue this way? Because you don't kill mc now, but exit it cleanly. > to report it as a terminator bug Unless you have firm evidence that this is a terminator (or VTE) bug, please don't spam its bugtracker with something that's most likely an issue elsewhere. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bash in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1566437 Title: Scrolling randomly stops working Status in bash package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Usually, scrolling in the terminal window works as expected, which is like this: - the terminal window has a scrollbar - Assuming there are more lines (of commands you have typed + their output) than fit in the window, you can scroll up and down both by dragging the scrollbar and by using the mouse wheel However, at random times, the Terminal starts behaving like this: 1 - the scrollbar's "handle" is as high as the whole scrollbar, as if the existing lines didn't exceed the height of the window, even if that is not the case 2 - you can't scroll by dragging the scrollbar (which is consistent with 1) 3 - the scrollwheel behaves like the up and down arrow keys, that is, it scans through previously typed commands in your history. I have no idea what triggers the nonsense behavior. It seems to start happening randomly. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: gnome-terminal 3.16.2-1ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-34.39-generic 4.2.8-ckt4 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-34-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Apr 5 19:05:18 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (906 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2016-01-18 (78 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1566437/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
