Comment 6 for bug 358796

The 93_add_alt_screen_scroll_toggle.patch does make sense though (see the discussion in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518405) It is a matter of how you are used to work with the mouse, so it should really be a user
preference. What we need for xfce4-terminal is something analogous to the patch to gnome terminal available on the above mentioned gnome bugreport. I might even cook up something in the next week. Would fit well in the Preferences Window
under General/Scrolling) And then some initialization code that calls vte_terminal_set_alternate_screen_scroll depending on the current value of the preference.

IMHO, the real bug was, to accept the 93_add_alt_screen_scroll_toggle.patch in a way, that it disabled the alt screen scroll toggle feature by default. (The original patch of the above bug report does not do that) But in that case someone sooner or later would raise the same complaint as in the above gnome bug against xfce4-terminal, so better do it right and make it configurable anywhere (are there other users of libvte?)