Re: Terminal input in the GUI vs. Qt keyboard shortcuts

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 05/15/2013 05:39 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> I've been unable to find a way to avoid conflicts between Qt keyboard
> shortcuts and the terminal input that readline is handling. I'm
> wondering if this is a fundamental problem that can't be solved if we
> are hooking readline directly to stdin for the process.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this? I'd really like to know whether the
> way we are embedding the terminal widget has a chance of working, or
> whether there is a fatal flaw here that we aren't going to be able to
> work around no matter what we do.
>
> Comments?

I haven't looked at this.  Have you tried to get at the level where the 
shortcuts are handled?  It seems to me that maybe a better way is 
instead of trying to use linux OS level communication is to override the 
keyboard handling element of Qt with a function that first checks if the 
terminal window is the window in focus and then pass that onto readline 
somehow.  Or the control-keys could generally be passed onto the 
terminal, depending upon on how one wants to treat it.

key hit -> Qt key handler -> terminal focus, send to readline
                          -> not terminal focus, send to normal Qt handler

Dan