[texworks] Bug report

[Stefan Löffler]

On 2017-04-24 13:45, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2017, Stefan Löffler wrote:
>> As the GUI naturally intercepts such keypresses (Ctrl-C for copy): I assume
>> the shell had the keyboard focus?
> Yes.
>
>> Does typing other keys (e.g. normal letters) show anything (for me it shows
>> the letters in the shell).
> Yes:
>
> $ texworks sync.pdf
>
> ^C
> ^C^C^C
> Hello, why don't your read my Ctrl-C?
> ^C^C
> ^Z
> [1]+  Stopped                 texworks sync.pdf
> $ 
>
> The cmake invocation is basically:
> 	cmake .. -DTW_BUILD_ID='Debian' -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='/usr' -DWITH_PYTHON=ON -DTeXworks_HELP_DIR='/usr/share/texworks-help'

Can you try without python? Python scripting is currently not supported
anymore due to cross-platform issues (the code is still there in case
someone wants to pick it up in the future, but it's disabled by default
for now). I could imagine that the python interpreter is interfering here...

HTH,
Stefan