[Konsole-devel] [Bug 170582] New: Configure Konsole Scroll Wheel Behavior

[Scott Thatcher]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170582

           Summary: Configure Konsole Scroll Wheel Behavior
           Product: konsole
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konsole-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: thatcher at truman.edu


Version:            (using KDE 4.1.1)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Sometime between Konsole 1.6.6 and Konsole 2.1, the behavior of Konsole was
changed so that it sends keyboard up and down events to applications like vim
when the scroll wheel is used. In many applications, this behavior is a plus,
but I have found that it is not something I like universally.  It would be
great to be able to turn this behavior in Konsole 2.1 off so that it functions
like previous versions.

Here's the case where it's especially annoying to me: I'm typing in vim on my
laptop and my hand brushes the right-hand side of the touch pad, which acts as
a scroll wheel.  This behavior is especially bad in vim because the scroll
wheel events move the cursor while typing (compare this to the scroll wheel's
action in a graphical program, which normally moves the viewing window without
moving the cursor). I already use synd to disable the touch pad for a fraction
of a second after typing, but my bad habits still lead to this one problem.

Finally, a question. While looking through other bug reports, I saw that it's
possible to type

echo -e '\e[?1000h' and 
echo -e '\e[?1000l'

to turn on and off mouse wheel events in some terminals. In Konsole 1.5.6,
these commands did indeed enable and disable scrolling in vim (although the
scrolling worked slightly differently than in 2.1). However in 2.1, these two
commands toggle between the 1.5.6's version of scrolling and 2.1's version of
scrolling. Is there another code that will turn off 2.1's scrolling entirely?

Thanks for your work and for your time spent reading this request.


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