Bug 382947 - Super keys update konsole viewport
Summary: Super keys update konsole viewport
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: konsole
Classification: Applications
Component: keyboard (show other bugs)
Version: 15.12.3
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konsole Developer
URL:
Keywords: investigated, triaged
: 364893 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2017-07-31 08:13 UTC by steini2000
Modified: 2019-02-04 14:32 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description steini2000 2017-07-31 08:13:42 UTC 
Configure enough scrollback.
Create continuously scrolling output:
while true ; do ls -alh ; sleep 1 ; done

Viewport is updated to the latest output.
Scroll up one or more lines.
Viewport is stable, new output is added
to the invisible end.

Everything like expected up to now.
Now press the Meta key (also called the Windows Key or Super Key),
left or right doesn't matter.

Viewport is updated to the latest output.

Expected behaviour:
Viewport should be stable when pressing the Meta key
(as with Ctrl and Alt keys).

My use case:
Monitoring output with tail -f, scroll up to stop auto scrolling.
I have many shortcuts starting with the Meta...
Comment 1 Kurt Hindenburg 2017-08-08 00:55:16 UTC 
To clarify, hitting Meta key causes Konsole to scroll to be the bottom similar to hitting Enter?

On my Neon system, hitting left "meta" key opens the KDE/plasma menu.  Right one does nothing.
Comment 2 steini2000 2017-08-10 13:46:32 UTC 
It's similar, but with a little difference:
- Hitting Enter immediately scrolls to the bottom
- Hitting one of the Meta keys scrolls to the bottom when new text is appended to the end
  (e.g. by tail -f). This can also happen minutes after hitting the Meta key.
Comment 3 Egmont Koblinger 2017-08-12 18:02:12 UTC 
Meta is typically Alt, whereas Super is the Windows/Ubuntu key. Do you have a nontypical mapping, or just mixed up the terminology?
Comment 4 steini2000 2017-08-12 19:38:01 UTC 
Sorry, I mixed up the terminology.
The problem is with the left and right windows keys. So we're talking about the super keys. 
I've got two pretty standard Kubuntu installations with German keyboard.
I don't have access to them for the next weeks, so please be patient if more info is required.
Comment 5 Marco Richetta 2018-10-30 14:48:54 UTC 
Hi, I'm from the Bugsquad team and we are triaging bugs on Konsole today.
Thanks for reporting the bug.

Application Version: 17.12.3
KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.6
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.44.0
Qt Version: 5.9.5

I tried to reproduce your bug hitting Meta key (Windows), Ctrl, Alt, AltGr.
None of them updated the viewport to the latest output and all worked as expected.

Is this still happening on your system?

Thanks.
Comment 6 Marco Richetta 2018-10-30 14:50:10 UTC 
*** Bug 364893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 steini2000 2019-01-27 15:35:26 UTC 
Confirming. Also works for me now.
Same version as Marco.