Hi all, There's a longstanding bug in Gnome-terminal that I rediscovered recently. To reproduce: 1. Start Gnome-terminal. 2. Run a text editor such as Vim. 3. Insert some text. 4. Move the cursor to the first character of the first line on the screen - this must be at the top left of the screen. In braille, a blank line appears and the left/right cursor keys will show that Orca does not track the position of the caret properly. The bug is in the vte3 library, specifically in src/vteaccess.c. I have a first attempt at a patch for this, which works in my initial tests. Now for the question: what's the correct way to report this and to have the patch properly reviewed? Should it be a bug against vte 3, or first an Orca bug? The patch is attached here in case anyone wants to test it. This would involve rebuilding libvte. Unfortunately I'm working against an old version because Debian is in freeze pending the upcoming release, hence at Gnome 3.4. However, I couldn't find any indication in the Gnome bug tracker that this has been fixed, although I remember reporting it a long time ago but I can't find it in Bugzilla. Suggestions at this point would be much appreciated, and let's get this one resolved. Incidentally, the process of tracking down the relevant code was faster than I expected. Wishing everyone on the list a highly successful year in 2013.
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