Terminal loses focus versus tab title

[aplopez]

Describe the bug
When clicking on the current tab's title, the terminal loses the focus which is transferred to the title. It is no longer possible to type on the terminal.
Running terminator -g /dev/null still behaves as described.

To Reproduce
1 - Open at least 2 tabs.

2 - Select a tab by clicking on it and you can type your commands on that terminal.

3 - Click (again) on current tab's title as you just did on step 2.

4 - The terminal loses the focus (it is slightly greyed and the red bar become grey), which is transferred to the tab's title (see the dotted-line box around the title) and you can no longer type on the terminal.

5 - Click on the terminal itself, and the focus is transferred from the tab's title back to the terminal. You can again type your commands.

Expected behavior
When clicking for a second time (not a double-click) on the tab, the focus should remain on the terminal. This is what seems most logical and what Gnome Terminal does.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• RHEL7

Additional context
Seems to be this same old bug on Launchpad which was never fixed.

[mattrose]

So, I think that when you click on the same tab that's associated with the terminal, it transfers focus to the tab itself, not the associated terminal. I wonder if there's a way to associate just a double-click to the associated tab, and not a single-click. I may see how gnome-terminal does this.

[mattrose]

This is the gnome-terminal fix, apparently:
https://bug746665.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=300270

Not sure how to translate that to python.

[marktimarev]

This is the gnome-terminal fix, apparently:
https://bug746665.bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=300270

Not sure how to translate that to python.

Thanks, I will try to figure out how implement it

[marktimarev]

Yeah, I got it, they hook the event when a tat grabs focus and then push the focus back to the inner terminal manually.
Going to push a MR soon.

[mattrose]

Wow, that's great! Thanks and looking forward to the PR.

[marktimarev]

It was apparently easier than the fix in the gnome-terminal.
It solves the issue for me, please check.