Re: VTE questions

["Arnel A. Borja" <kyoushuu yahoo com>]

Hello,

On Wednesday, 29 May, 2013 05:03 AM, Kip Warner wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 14:48 +0200, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> > The VteTerminal widget implements GtkScrollable, so the answer is
> > "GtkScrolledWindow".  GtkViewport is only useful to make unscrollable
> > widgets scrollable, and normally any widget that would be expected to
> > scroll (text view, tree view, icon view, etc.) should be scrollable, so
> > a first guess at GtkScrolledWindow would have been fine.  Also, it's
> > harmless to try it ;)
> I've actually tried both, but the GtkViewport seemed to look better. For
> some reason when I put it inside a GtkScrolledWindow, part of the child
> VTE widget seems clipped at the top and I don't know how to solve this.
> Worst case, I wonder if there is any harm in using it in a viewport?
Seems like VteTerminal prefers a vertical GtkScrollbar. That's what
gnome-terminal and anjuta use:

at function terminal_screen_container_constructor:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/tree/src/terminal-screen-container.c

||at function create_box:|
https://git.gnome.org/browse/anjuta/tree/plugins/terminal/terminal.c

There's code in gnome-terminal that uses GtkScrolledWindow but it is
not enabled by default (and I can't find any other file that uses
USE_SCROLLED_WINDOW that checks if a GtkScrolledWindow should be used,
seems like that code is not used at all).

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> > GtkScrolledWindow::shadow-type
> I've already tried etched in / out, in / out, and no luck with both the
> viewport and scrolled window, and none of them give the desired
> appearance.
Try copying Anjuta's way of packing a terminal; it uses a GtkFrame to
pack a horizontal GtkBox which contains the VteTerminal and the 
GtkScrollbar.