It seems that when I strike ctrl-t to spawn a new terminal tab, the screen refreshes but no new tab is spawned. Selecting "open new tab" from the command menu always works. This only seems to happen with a maximized xfce4-terminal Fix: none, workaround by selecting the open new tab menu item from the menu bar. How-To-Repeat: run xfce4-terminal maximized and strike <ctrl>T to spawn a new tab.
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I should note that once a tab is opened in xfce4-terminal, ctrl-t always works. This smells like a gtk/xorg window resizing thing perhaps?
In x11/xfce4-terminal Ctrl-t works fine. Since 0.6.0 release it uses (like Thunar) Gtk menu accelerators feature. If you want to redefine shortcuts, you must enable "Editable menu accelerators" in the User Interfaces Preferences dialog [1] and follow FAQ [2]. [1] http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/appearance#settings [2] http://docs.xfce.org/faq#editable_menu_accelerators -- olivier
1. If a second tab is open, I can *always* open a new tab via ctrl-t 2. Sometimes, ctrl-t will open a second tab. 3. Moving my terminal between displays (nvidia config'd xorg with twinview across two screens), I can open the second tab with ctrl-t 4. When the terminal fails to open a second tab, the terminal flashes/blinks as though it was refreshing.
You should use ctrl+shift+t. ctrl+t sends SIGINFO to all processes in the foreground. This makes some programs print out status info, e.g. if you run 'sleep 10' and press ctrl+t, sleep prints out how many seconds are left.
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 11:55 +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > You should use ctrl+shift+t. > ctrl+t sends SIGINFO to all processes in the foreground. This makes > some programs print out status info, e.g. if you run 'sleep 10' and > press ctrl+t, sleep prints out how many seconds are left. Ugh, yeah. I have been hitting ctrl+shift+t all along. My brain was not remembering what my fingers have been doing. Sean
How do I set xfce4-terminal into some kind of verbose/debugging mode so that I can spawn it and try to debug what is going on? Sean
ah, interesting. this problem seems to *never* happen when not using a "maximized" terminal. If the terminal is not taking up the entire desktop, ctrl-shift-t seems to always work.
hrm, still seems to be an issue. I've installed xfce4 on 3 different machines now 2 of which have nvidia cards. The two that have nvidia cards seem to have some issue with <ctrl><shift>-T that I don't understand. Maybe this is an Xorg issue? Sean FreeBSD powernoodle 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #14: Sun Aug 11 07:27:05 PDT 2013 sbruno@powernoodle:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POWERNOODLE amd64
Nope, this is happening on my intel graphics only enabled desktop. Hitting <shift><ctrl-T> to open a new tab causes the terminal to flicker but no new tab opens. Selecting File->New Tab always works. Sean
This seems to only happen when the terminal is maximized. It will flash as though its spawning a new window and then fail.
I think, it's better if you report this problem on Xfce's bugzilla [1]. [1] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Xfce4-terminal -- olivier
This no longer happens on any of my machines.