[Pkg-xfce-devel] xfce4-terminal cycle tabs option

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Wolfram Quester wrote:
> gnome-terminal is not able to cycle through the tabs and this ist what I
> consider the second most annoying thing of this program. I think the
> best thing you can do is to turn this feature on by default.
> 

If we dont have a negative answer in the list, i'll change the default
and add a notice to the README.Debian file.
> 
>>And, by the way, even if MISC_CYCLE_TABS=3DFALSE we should not have the
>>characters (~5 etc..) printed on the terminal. I'm going to have a look
>>at the code but maybe it's in GTK, i dont know.
> 
> gnome-terminal had this misprinting of characters too. It was in
> debian's BTS, so digging in the archived bugs might help to find out
> when this issue was resolved and. Perhaps it is possible to dig through
> cvs of that time to find out how it was done. In comparison, xfterm4 doesn't allow
> jumping between tabs at all here. Pressing ctrl-Pg{UP,Down} produces the
> ~5 characters in every tab.

xfterm4 is just a wrapper that launch:
1) $TERMCMD if available
2) some terminal from a list
3) xterm by default


> BTW, if I start xfce4-terminal from another terminal I get loads of
> 
> (xfce4-terminal:9430): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value
> has wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)
> 
> Can someone reproduce this? Probably I'll submit a bug report.

I can, but, it's just warnings, so...

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