Mouse scroll in terminal started to switch tabs: How to switch this off?

[dreirund]

With a recent update (I am at guake version 3.9.1.dev0 (according to guake --version) from Arch Linux) when I use mouse wheel on a guake terminal window, guake changes tabs (as well as forwarding the scroll to the currently opened terminal, which changes quickly while scrolling).

In the settings of guake (Right click -> "Preferences"), I don't see that I have mouse scroll assigned to any action, and especially under "Keyboard shortcuts", "Go to previos tab" and "Go to next tab" are assigned to <Alt>+<Left> and <Alt>+<Right>, respectively.

How can I switch off that mouse scroll switches tabs, so that I can use it to scroll within the terminal window without any interference?

I also don't know where guake stores it's settings; a find .[a-zA-Z]* | grep guake in my home directory did only reveal the session storage .config/guake/session.json. Otherwise I would have posted my quake configuration file.

Regards!

[hackedd]

I can not reproduce this, scrolling while the mouse is over the tab list switches between tabs (which is consistent with many other applications presenting a tabbed interface) while scrolling over the terminal scrolls that terminal only.

Which desktop environment and window manager are you using? Can you also include the output of guake --support?

[dreirund]

Which desktop environment

None,

and window manager

xfwm4

At system startup, a lightdm session manager starts, and from this, the ~/.xinitrc is used to start things up.

Here is my ~/.xinitrc (removed all lines which are just comments; guake was started at the point where now xfce4-terminal and sxhkd are started):

_wait_for_window() {
  if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
    printf '%s\n' "Error in '${FUNCNAME[0]}()': No argument specified. Need a window name as argument." > /dev/stderr
    return 1
  fi
  while ! $(wmctrl -l | sed -E 's|^[^ ]+ +[^ ]+ +[^ ]+ +||' | grep -qFx "$1"); do
    sleep 1
  done
}

_move_window_to_workspace() {
  if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
    printf '%s\n' "Error in '${FUNCNAME[0]}()': Too few arguments specified. Need a window name and a workspace number as arguments." > /dev/stderr
    return 1
  fi
  _wait_for_window "$1"
  wmctrl -F -r "${_window}" -t "$2"
}

/usr/local/bin/xrandr-all-1280x720.sh

xhost +
xset s off
xset -dpms
xkbset bo 50 # Set key debouncing (50 ms).
if [ -r ~/.Xresources ]; then
  xrdb ~/.Xresources
fi
xterm &
touchegg --client --quiet &

if [ "${DISPLAY%%.*}" == ":0" ]; then
  xfwm4 &
  xfce4-panel &
  pasystray &
  arandr-indicator &
  xfce4-terminal --drop-down --maximize --default-working-directory="${HOME}/tmp" --tab --tab --tab --tab --tab --tab --tab --tab --tab --tab --working-directory="/" -e /usr/local/bin/get_root.sh --tab --working-directory="/" -e /usr/local/bin/get_root.sh &
  { 
     sleep 5;
     xfce4-terminal --drop-down # Hide terminal after initial startup
  } &
  sxhkdrc -c ~/.sxhkd/sxhkdrc &
  clipit &
  blueman-applet &
  redshift-gtk -c ~/.config/redshift.conf -r &
  pulseaudio-dlna --port 10291 --debug --auto-reconnect &
  xsetroot -solid grey

  uxterm -geometry 64x12+0+0     -sl 0     -bg white -fg black -xrm "xterm*allowTitleOps: false" -title 'nload'      -e nload.my &
  uxterm -geometry 65x12+396+0   -sl 0     -bg white -fg black -xrm "xterm*allowTitleOps: false" -title 'pingtest'   -e sh -c 'while true; do ping -n -i5 gmx.de; sleep 1; done' &
  uxterm -geometry 79x26+798+359 -sl 10240 -bg white -fg black -xrm "xterm*allowTitleOps: false" -title 'user shell' &
  uxterm -geometry 79x26+798+0   -sl 10240 -bg black -fg white -xrm "xterm*allowTitleOps: false" -title 'root shell' -e get_root.sh &
  uxterm -geometry 131x21+0+179  -sl 0     -fg black -bg white -xrm "xterm*allowTitleOps: false" -title 'top'        -e top.my &
  uxterm -geometry 131x17+0+475  -sl 0     -fg black -bg white -xrm "xterm*allowTitleOps: false" -title 'iotop'      -e sudo /usr/local/bin/iotop.my &

  for _window in 'nload' 'pingtest' 'user shell' 'root shell' 'top' 'iotop'; do
    _move_window_to_workspace "${_window}" 1 &
  done

  unset _window

  unset -f _wait_for_window
  unset -f _move_window_to_workspace
else
  icewm &
fi

sleepforever

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Can you also include the output of guake --support?

Here:

(guake:9994): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:31:47.856: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:2440:18: '-gtk-icon-filter' is not a valid property name

(guake:9994): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:31:47.864: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:6258:18: '-gtk-icon-filter' is not a valid property name
<details><summary>$ guake --support</summary>

Guake Version:		3.9.1.dev0

Vte Version:		0.70.1

Vte Runtime Version:	0.70.1

--------------------------------------------------
GTK+ Version:		3.24.34

GDK Backend:		<GdkX11.X11Display

--------------------------------------------------
Desktop Session: xinitrc

--------------------------------------------------
Display: :0

RGBA visual: True

Composited: False

* Monitor: 0 - DSI1
    * Geometry:		1280 x 720 at 0, 304
    * Size:		339 x 190 mm²
    * Primary:		True
    * Refresh rate:	60.082 Hz
    * Subpixel layout:	horizontal-rgb
* Monitor: 1 - HIQ HDMI1
    * Geometry:		1280 x 1024 at 0, 0
    * Size:		380 x 300 mm²
    * Primary:		False
    * Refresh rate:	75.024 Hz
    * Subpixel layout:	unknown

Does that help?

I am not sure if this in the end is some "magic" from GTK3 itself that was imposed upon me at some upgrade. Any hint on how I can track this down is helpful as well.

I have for now resorted to use xfce4-terminal --drop-down, but I would like guake more because of the built-in session save feature.

Regards!

[danielrozenberg]

I'm experiencing the same issue, and downgrading to a previously-known working version of Guake didn't resolve this issue, so I suspect it's caused by an update to something else in the system. I'm using Gnome 42.4, the output of guake --support is:

<details><summary>$ guake --support</summary>

Guake Version:		3.9.0

Vte Version:		0.70.0

Vte Runtime Version:	0.70.0

--------------------------------------------------
GTK+ Version:		3.24.34

GDK Backend:		<GdkX11.X11Display

--------------------------------------------------
Desktop Session: gnome

--------------------------------------------------
Display: :1

RGBA visual: True

Composited: True

* Monitor: 0 - HWP DP-6
    * Geometry:		2560 x 1440 at 0, 0
    * Size:		597 x 336 mm²
    * Primary:		True
    * Refresh rate:	59.95 Hz
    * Subpixel layout:	unknown
* Monitor: 1 - HWP DP-7
    * Geometry:		2560 x 1440 at 2560, 0
    * Size:		597 x 336 mm²
    * Primary:		False
    * Refresh rate:	59.95 Hz
    * Subpixel layout:	unknown

I also tried running guake --verbose and seeing if anything interesting happens in the logs - steps I took were:

1. guake --verbose
2. Open a second tab with +T
3. Scroll up and down on top of the terminals (not the tab row)

The tabs switched, but nothing showed up on the log after mom, I've been called: add_tab

Let me know what else I can do to help debug this!

[4ext]

I had the same problem.
It was strange that only guake was affected, but there were almost no reports about this.

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim was the culprit, in my case at least. Unsetting or changing to ibus solved it for me.
Looking at @dreirund 's posted environment where it's set to xim as well, I hope this information can be useful.

[danielrozenberg]

@4ext's solution works for me. I ran im-config -n ibus and restarted my computer - scrolling on Guake no longer switches tabs!

[dreirund]

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim was the culprit, in my case at least. Unsetting or changing to ibus solved it for me.

I can confirm that this was also the culprit for me.

Is this a bug in xim, a bug in guake, a bug in GTK3, or in some intermediate library or (default) configuration, or where?

[coozoo]

Hm, after upgrading from fedora 36 to 38 I got something similar just only attempts to scroll up switching tabs from left to right, but in case of scrolling down everything works as expected... I'm on Mate DE and doesn't matter with compiz or marco it works in the same way....

[dreirund]

I have left guake in favour of xfce4-terminal --drop-down together with a hotkey daemon. I unsubscribe from this issue.

[seyfer]

I have the same issue on ubuntu 23.10
where do I change GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus to ibus and make it persistent?

[Davidy22]

Additions to /etc/profile.d/ should let you set thing persistently like that.

[seyfer]

@Davidy22 seems like just running this command im-config -n ibus made it persistent.
And it solved the Guake tabs scrolling problem.

[m0rjjj]

It happened to me too.
I am using Ubuntu 24.04.1

guake --support
<details><summary>$ guake --support</summary>

Guake Version:		3.10

Vte Version:		0.76.0

Vte Runtime Version:	0.76.0

--------------------------------------------------
GTK+ Version:		3.24.41

GDK Backend:		<GdkX11.X11Display

--------------------------------------------------
Desktop Session: ubuntu

--------------------------------------------------
Display: :1

RGBA visual: True

Composited: True

* Monitor: 0 - MSI DP-2
    * Geometry:		3440 x 1440 at 0, 0
    * Size:		797 x 333 mm²
    * Primary:		True
    * Refresh rate:	99.998 Hz
    * Subpixel layout:	unknown

im-config -n ibus saved the day