Urxvt tabbed(ex) scroll doesn't work when mouse is not inside urxvt window

[Vas No Medas]

Hello, Jim

>To the original poster: using your favourite window manager and your
>favourite configuration, does this happen in other terminal emulators
>or just in urxvt?  My tests lead me to believe this is more of a urxvt
>"feature" than a window manager issue.

It doesn't depend on window manager. It's exactly rxvt-unicode + tabbed
(or  tabbedex) plugin problem. (Oh, it seems that Martin in the message has
found a possible reason of this problem)


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:17 PM, <zlists at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

>  On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 19:03 (+0100), Martin Pohlack wrote:
>
> > Hi again,
>
> > I also observe the problem with xfce and focus follows mouse.
>
> > I think the difference is, which instance of urxvt receives and cooks
> > the key sequence, so whether the embedded tab instances receive events
> > directly or whether the outer instances receives, processes, and
> > forwards them.
>
> > Last time I instrumented the relevant code path with printfs to gain
> > some clarity ... maybe I find the time again in the next weeks.
>
> And a related (or the same, I getting?) problem with fvwm2 and focus
> follows
> mouse.
>
> Specifically, if I have a urxvt terminal and the mouse is on the title
> bar, page-up and page-down keys have no apparent effect, regardless of
> whether I am using tabbedex or not.  This is different behaviour than
> both the xterm and the rxvt I have on my system.  (And uxterm and
> xfce4-terminal.)
>
> To the original poster: using your favourite window manager and your
> favourite configuration, does this happen in other terminal emulators
> or just in urxvt?  My tests lead me to believe this is more of a urxvt
> "feature" than a window manager issue.
>
> Cheers.
>
> > On 28.02.2014 08:01, Vas No Medas wrote:
> >> Hello again.
>
> >> I've tried installing rxvt-unicode 9.15 and rxvt-unicode 9.14, enabled
> >> tabbed extension there and the bug was also there. (At  first I though
> >> that it was broken again after 9.15)
>
> >> Also I thought that it could be a problem with awesome, so I installed
> >> xubuntu on virtualbox, launch rxvt-unicode 9.18 + tabbed there and tried
> >> scrolling up-down with Shift+PageUp/PageDown and it also didn't work
> >> when mouse pointer was not in window.
>
> >> I also tried diving with gdb in rxvt-unicode source code to see where it
> >> differs between when mouse pointer is inside/outside, but haven't
> >> succeeded. Maybe anyone knows why and how it detects mouse outside
> window?
>
> >> Vas
>
>
> >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Michael Traxler <M.Traxler at gsi.de
> >> <mailto:M.Traxler at gsi.de>> wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
>
> >> I can verify the wrong behaviour of urxvt-9.19 and tabbedex together
> >> with
> >> awesome and the shift-page-up/down. Only works if the mouse is in the
> >> terminal, even though the focus is on urxvt (never dared to report!).
>
> >> shift-cursor-left/right to change the tab is working without
> >> problems even if
> >> the mouse is outside of urxvt.
>
> >> Michael
>
> >>     ------------------------------__---------
>
>
> >> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Vas No Medas wrote:
>
> >> Hi, Martin!
>
> >> I've disabled the scrolling redefinition. Now I can't scroll
> >> line-by-line
> >> with Shift+Up/Down.
> >> Shift+PageUp/PageDown (I haven't redefined it) works only when
> >> mouse is
> >> inside urxvt.
> >> I've also investigated a bit:
> >> Alt+S (searchable-scrollback) works even if mouse is outside.
> >> Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down/Left/Right work even if mouse is outside.
>
> >> I've also tried disabling
> >>         !URxvt*.iso14755: false
> >>         !URxvt*.iso14755_52: false
> >> But still no luck.
>
>
>
> >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Martin Pohlack
> >>         <mp26 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
> >>         <mailto:mp26 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de>>__wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
>
> >> your resources do contain redefinitions for scrolling:
>
> >> URxvt*.keysym.Shift-Up: command:\033]720;1\007
> >> URxvt*.keysym.Shift-Down: command:\033]721;1\007
>
> >> Do you still see the problem if you use the defaults there
> >>             (remove them)
> >>             + reload X resources (or logout / login)?
>
> >> If you trace the processing of the key sequences, I would
> >> assume that
> >> they are processed in the main instance and not the tabbed
> >> ones and
> >> therefore never arrive in the specific instances.
>
> >> Martin
>
> >> On 23.02.2014 13:48, Vas No Medas wrote:
>
> >> Hello!
>
> >> I have awesome WM and urxvt v9.19 with tabbed plugin
> >> enabled. Also I
> >> scroll with Shift+Up/Down. When I switch focus to my
> >> urxvt terminal but
> >> leave mouse outside, Shift+Up/Down has no effect.
> >> However, if I move the
> >> mouse in, scrolling works just right.
>
> >> Also when I disable tabbed plugin, scrolling works in
> >> all cases. I've
> >> tried tabbedex, but the situation is still the same.
>
> >> I've found a similar bugreport
> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-__bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511377
> >>                 <
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511377>
> >> which says that
> >> this was fixed in 9.14-15
> >> The solution there was to add on_tt_write handler. My
> >> perl/tabbed file
> >> also has on_tt_write handler but it seems that it is
> >> never called (tried
> >> putting warn in it)
>
> >> Here is my ~/.Xresources file:
>
> >> http://bpaste.net/show/__AddbC9C0d9U7qovNAa0R/
> >>             <http://bpaste.net/show/AddbC9C0d9U7qovNAa0R/>
>
>
> >> Also would be great if you could tell if you were able
> >> to reproduce the
>
> >> bug
>
>
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