I seem to have found the root of the problem. Christian was right,
gnome-terminal never had that feature. Gentoo included a patch for
vte-0.11.18 to add line scrolling. For vte-0.12.2 this patch is not
included, that's why that feature stopped working after I upgraded. So
I'll continue this discussion with the gentoo people and try to figure
out a way to add this patch to vte-0.12.2. For the time being I get line
scrolling back by using gnome-terminal-2.14.2 with vte-0.11.18.

However, I'd like to express my opinion here that gnome should include
this one line scroll patch into the main source of vte. I think it is a
really neat and useful feature. And as Christian said, the lack of this
feature made him not use gnome-terminal.

Jose

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 12:52, Christian Sasso (csasso) wrote:
> Hi Alan, I use gnome only at home, and now I'm at work, so I cannot
> immediately verify what you are saying. But as a minimum, it seems to me
> that the shift + up/down-arrows option is not enabled by default, 'cause
> I have been checking from time to time whether this feature had been
> introduced, and I'm absolutely sure that I never found it working.
> 
> Ciao!
> Christian Sasso
>  
> To be a rock and not to roll   -- from Stairway to Heaven by Led
> Zeppelin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Alan
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 11:45 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [gnome-love] gnome-terminal scroll changes
> 
> Really?  I have this working fine on my gentoo system, with
> gnome-terminal on a mostly x86 (~x86 gnome though) system.  I always
> figured this was something built into zvt or something.  I'd suggestion
> removing all your gconf keys for gnome-terminal and see if that does
> anything.  I'm at $work right now but if needed I will dig around in my
> config and prefs and see if I can see a setting in there.  
> 
> alan
> 
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:36:42AM -0700, Christian Sasso (csasso)
> wrote:
> > Hi Jose, as far as I can remember the gnome terminal never had such 
> > feature. By the way, this single missing feature is why I use the KDE 
> > terminal in my otherwise all gnome desktop.
> > 
> > Ciao!
> > Christian Sasso
> >  
> > To be a rock and not to roll   -- from Stairway to Heaven by Led
> > Zeppelin
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of Jose Marino
> > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 11:21 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [gnome-love] gnome-terminal scroll changes
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've just upgraded to gnome-2.14 (I'm using gentoo and it was just 
> > marked stable last week). I'm pretty happy with all the new 
> > improvements in this version. However, there's a little feature I used
> 
> > to love that seems to be gone now. I'm referring to scrolling in a 
> > gnome-terminal using the keyboard, by holding shift+up/down.
> > 
> > With gnome-terminal-2.12 you could scroll by pages with
> > shift+pgup/pgdown, or scroll by lines with shift+up/down. In this new
> > version I'm able to scroll by pages (shift+pgup/pgdown) but when I do
> > shift+up/down I get the same result as if I'd just pressed up/down 
> > shift+(with
> > no shift), i.e. browse the history. I really miss being able to scroll
> 
> > single lines.
> > 
> > Now to my questions: Is this an intended change? Is it just a 
> > configuration issue? Does anybody else have this same issue?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jose
> > 
> > PS: I apologize if this is not the right list to send this to.
> > 
> > 
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