Dan Youngquist composed on 2016-05-16 05:46 (UTC-0700):
Jan Stolarek wrote:
recently I encountere a problem with using Konsole. For some reason using Shift+<arrow key> stopped working in Emacs. At first I thought Emacs is at fault but a quick investigation revealed that using Shift+<arrow> simply does not work in Konsole. With google's help I found a solution [1], which was to edit keytab file found in /opt/trinity/share/apps/konsole/.
Why not just edit Konsole's shortcuts to remove those keys? Konsole uses them for Go To Next/Previous Session.
Maybe it would be better for Konsole to be more like other apps in their emulation of the source of the tab paradigm, at least via a simple option. Tabs' origin is in a binder, pages in a "book", enabling one to quickly select a particular point in a (vertical) _stack_ or _layer_ of sheets or pages. Thus, at least arguably, the more sensible emulation is up/down, not right/left.
Ctrl-Up/Ctrl-Down works in Mozilla products, my first exposure to tabs in any Linux environment, though not my first in a PC environment. (Alt-# in Quattro Pro for DOS was the first, just short of 3 decades ago.) Thus, because I spend more time in web browsers than all other tabbed apps combined, and with many many many tabs, than Konsole, keyboard tab switching in Konsole requires extra mental effort.