Okay, so I verified that, while blowing away my gnome-terminal config
and restarting GNOME does not eliminate the problem, a fresh new account
does not exhibit the symptoms.
The difference appears to be that my normal account is set up to use the
SCIM X Input Method. On a fresh account, if I do an "im-switch -s scim",
and then restart that user's GNOME session, I am then able to reproduce
the symptoms on that account, using the steps I described. So, the issue
is likely that gnome-terminal mishandles something related to XIMs
(though, it _could_ be SCIM-specific).
People that use gnome-terminal and need to type in relatively exotic
(usually, Asian) characters, will likely experience this problem, while
folks who can get what they need from ASCII characters and maybe dead-
letter keys or combination keys, probably won't.
** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
** Summary changed:
- Closing tab results in not accepting input
+ Closing tab results in not accepting input, when XIM is active
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
Steps to reproduce (some steps may not be necessary; I'm not on my home
machine right now so can't eliminate the unnecessary steps):
1. Open gnome-terminal
2. Type some stuff (may not be necessary)
3. Open a new tab via Control-Shift-T
4. Type some stuff (may not be necessary)
5. Close the tab (I usually do this via Control-D in the shell)
Resulting Behavior: Keys typed in the original tab are no longer processed
(they are, however, queued up: see the Workarounds).
Expected Behavior: Keys typed in the original tab should be processed as
normal, appearing and taking effect in the terminal.
Workarounds:
- - Opening a new tab again will cause all the keys that had been typed in the
original tab to be processed immediately. Closing that tab again results in the
same buggy behavior.
+ - Opening a new tab again will cause all the keys that had been typed in the
original tab to be processed immediately. Closing that tab again results in the
same buggy behavior. [NOTE: this does not appear to be the case lately; nothing
previously typed is processed, it must be retyped.]
- Opening a new _window_, via Control-Shift-N, will cause all the keys to be
processed immediately, and closing the new window does _not_ result in the
original terminal window locking up again.
Apologies for not specifying the gnome-terminal package version; I'm
away from the affected system at this moment. However, I am running
Hardy Heron (8.04), and my packages were up-to-date as of last night.
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Closing tab results in not accepting input, when XIM is active
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232027
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