gnome-terminal / vte changed its behavior around that time. There was also quite a bit of confusion caused by a downstream ubuntu patch and removal also around that time.
I'm not sure what's 14.04's behavior, but in newer Ubuntus (e.g. 16.04) you can disable alternate screen scrolling with the DECRESET 1007 escape sequence, that is: echo -ne '\e[?1007l' Maybe it already works in 14.04, please try it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1688528 Title: gnome-terminal with screen interprets mouse wheel events as up/down Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Bug is based on my last comments from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/screen/+bug/106995 Environment: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS gnome-terminal 3.6.2 libvte 0.34.9 screen 4.1.0 The problem is: 1. screen is running from gnome-terminal 2. mouse wheel scrolling generates up/down events which ends up as bash history scrolling instead of gnome-terminal history scrolling 3. if run cat command, then mouse wheel ends up as esc-keys: ^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B^[[B Gnome-terminal's option about alternate screen is not working anymore in trusty ubuntu release, but it has been working in precise release. As I said in bug 106995: gnome-terminal's option about alternatre screen doesn't do anything with vte, so it's useless, but if I understand this patch in vte right it set alternate screen option true value on initialization automatically. commit 9f8c1b88dcd880c2d9e78c93521ee755560a9275 Author: Christian Persch <[email protected]> Date: Mon Sep 30 23:00:09 2013 +0200 gnome-terminal calls vte_terminal_reset in terminal-window.c which set alternate screen flag to true, it's strange that it doesn't work. I suspect that problem is in gnome-terminal, because this problem doesn't exists in screen run from xterm or rxvt terminal. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1688528/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
