Thursday, March 1, 2012

Xfce Tab and auto-complete terminal via VNC

I switched my windows system from Gnome to Xfce4 for a change, and ran into an interesting problem:  After I configured my ~/.vnc/xstartup profile to use the new window system, anytime I'd attempt to auto-complete in terminal (/ho<tab> for /home, for instance), the cursor would just blink, and no auto complete would occur.

This only seemed to happen with VNC sessions, but I did not explore this much because of the headless nature of my server.

Turns out Xfce was assigning something called <Super>Tab to the Tab key...removing this binding allows auto-complete to function.

It can be reached by Settings --> Window Manager ---> Keyboard, as detailed in the following image:


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8 comments:

  1. John LiSeptember 30, 2012 at 11:11 PM

    Thanks a lot!

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  2. AbhirMarch 20, 2013 at 2:28 PM

    Awesome tip!

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  3. M0E-lnxMarch 22, 2013 at 11:11 AM

    This has been driving me nuts. I've spent countless hours on the "internets" looking for a solution. Thanks for pointing this out.

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  4. TimSeptember 21, 2013 at 12:05 PM

    Thank you as well! First result on google for this problem!

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  5. UnknownJanuary 23, 2014 at 2:56 PM

    Thanks, changed that puppy to Tab and auto-complete works again.

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  6. AnirbanNovember 14, 2014 at 5:52 AM

    thanks for the awesome tip !!

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  7. Cláudio FernandesJuly 17, 2015 at 2:41 PM

    Thank you!

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  8. vallatandSeptember 22, 2016 at 6:03 AM

    You the real MVP. Thank you.

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