terminal.md

MATE Terminal

MATE Terminal is preinstalled on MATE DE. It may be called from terminal as mate-terminal or by using <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<T> in MATE DE.

File

Opening terminal window

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select File → Open Terminal (or <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<N>)

Expected result:

• New terminal window is opened.

Opening terminal tab

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select File → Open Tab (or <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<T>)

Expected result:

• New tab is opened inside already opened terminal window.

Creating new profile

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select File → New Profile
3. Specify the name of new profile in Profile name
4. Click Create
5. In the opened window change some settings and click Close

Expected result:

• MATE Terminal created new profile, its settings were saved.

Closing terminal tab

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select File → Open Tab (or <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<T>)
3. Select File → Close Tab (or <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<W>)

Expected result:

• MATE Terminal opens new tab and closes it.

Closing terminal window

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select File → Close Window (or <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<Q>)

Expected result:

• MATE Terminal is opened that closed.

Edit

Copy, Paste

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select some text with mouse
3. Select Edit → Copy (or <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<C>) to copy the text
4. Select Edit → Paste (or <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<V>) to paste the text

Expected results:

• text is copied from terminal and pasted to it upon user request.

Select All

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Select All (or <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<A>)

Expected results:

• all text is the terminal was selected.

Profiles

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profiles

Expected results:

• the Profiles window is opened

Create new profile

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profiles
3. In the opened Profiles window click New
4. Specify Profile name
5. Click Create
6. In the opened window change some settings and click Close

Expected results:

• Profiles window was opened, new profile is created

Edit profile

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profiles
3. In the opened Profiles window select profile
4. Click Edit
5. In the opened window change some settings and click Close

Expected results:

• Profiles window was opened, existing profile was edited

Delete existing profile

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profiles
3. In the opened Profiles window select profile
4. Click Delete
5. Confirm profile deletion by click on Delete

Expected results:

• Profiles window was opened, existing profile was deleted

Setting default profile

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profiles
3. In the opened Profiles window select set Profile used when launching new terminal to the needed profile name
4. Click Close and close MATE Terminal
5. Open MATE Terminal again and ensure that it was opened with the specified profile

Expected results:

• Default profile was set, the new terminal was opened with specified profile applied

Keyboard Shortcuts

Enable or disable menu access keys (mnemonics)

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts and uncheck the Enable menu access kets (such as Alt+F to open File menu checkbox, click Close
3. Press <Alt>+<F>
4. Select Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts and check the Enable menu access kets (such as Alt+F to open File menu checkbox, click Close
5. Press <Alt>+<F>

Expected results:

• Menu access keys behavior changes according to the state of Enable menu access kets (such as Alt+F to open File menu checkbox

Enable or disable menu shortcut key (F10)

To execute this test one needs to install Midnight Commander. On Ubuntu it is done by sudo apt-get install mc.

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts and uncheck Enable the menu shortcut key (F10 by default), click Close
3. Open Midnight Commander with mc and press <F10> to exit from it
4. Select Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts and check Enable the menu shortcut key (F10 by default), click Close
5. Open Midnight Commander with mc and press <F10> to exit from it

Expected results:

• user is able to exit from Midnight Commander by using <F10> key only if Enable the menu shortcut key (F10 by default) is unchecked
• user is able to open MATE Terminal menu by using <F10> key only if Enable the menu shortcut key (F10 by default) is checked

Viewing, redefining and disabling shortcut keys

To execute this test one needs to install Midnight Commander. On Ubuntu it is done by sudo apt-get install mc.

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Open Midnight Commander with mc and press <F1> to open its help
3. Select Edit → Keyboard Shortcuts, locate Help → Contents item, click on the F1 value in the Shortcut Key column and press <Backspace> to disable this shortcut, click Close
4. Open Midnight Commander with mc and press <F1> to open its help

Expected results:

• user is able to open help of Midnight Commander only if Help → Contents shortcut is disabled.

Profile Preferences

General

Setting font and its width

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab
3. Uncheck Use the system fixed width font checkbox
4. Check Use the system fixed width font checkbox

Expected results:

• The font inside terminal changes according to the state of Use the system fixed width font checkbox

Setting bold font

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab
3. Check Allow bold text checkbox
4. Uncheck Allow bold text checkbox

Expected results:

• The font inside terminal changes from normal to bold according to the state of Allow bold text checkbox

Setting menubar in new terminals

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab
3. Uncheck Show menubar by default in new terminals, click Close
4. Open new MATE Terminal
5. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab and check Show menubar by default in new terminals, click Close
6. Open new MATE Terminal

Expected results:

• The menubar visibility is changed according to the state of Show menubar by default in new terminals checkbox

Setting terminal bell

Steps to test:

1. Unmute speakers
2. Open MATE Terminal
3. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab, uncheck Terminal bell checkbox
4. Set focus to the MATE Terminal window and press down button on the keyboard (<↓>)
5. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab, check Terminal bell checkbox
6. Set focus to the MATE Terminal window and press down button on the keyboard (<↓>)

Expected results:

• The terminal produces sound after <↓> key is pressed only if Terminal bell checkbox is checked

Setting option to copy selected text into clipboard

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab, check Copy selected text into keyboard checkbox
3. Execute some command in the terminal, select some words from its output by mouse
4. Paste the text from clipboard to some other application
5. In the MATE Terminal select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab, check Copy selected text into keyboard checkbox

Expected results:

• If Copy selected text into keyboard checkbox is checked, then selection of the text in the terminal get it copied to the clipboard

Setting highlight of the URLs

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab, uncheck Highlight URLs under mouse pointer checkbox
3. Run sudo apt-get update in the terminal, move mouse cursor over any URL and ensure that it is not highlighted
4. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab, check Highlight URLs under mouse pointer checkbox back, click Close
5. Move mouse cursor over any URL and ensure that it is highlighted

Expected results:

• URLs in the MATE Terminal are highlighted only if Highlight URLs under mouse pointer checkbox is checked

Setting properties of the cursor

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab
3. Change value of Cursor blink and view changes is active terminal window
4. Change value of Cursor shape and view changes is active terminal window
5. Click Close

Expected results:

• The properties of cursor get changed according to the values in Cursor blink and Cursor shape

Setting default terminal size

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to General tab
3. Check the Use custom default terminal size
4. Set Default size to custom value (for example – 100 columns and 50 rows)
5. Open new instance of MATE Terminal

Expected results:

• The default size of new terminal was changed according to values in Default size fields

Title and Command

== TBW ==

Colors

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to Colors tab
3. Uncheck Use colors from system theme and check it back
4. Change Built-in schemes from Tango some other, then change back to Tango

Expected results:

• The colors of terminal are changed according to the settings on the Colors tab

Background

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to Background tab
3. Switch the radio button from Solid color to Background image and then to Transparent background
4. Switch the radio button back to Solid color

Expected results:

• The terminal background changes according to the position of radio button on Background tab

Scrolling

Changing scrollbar position

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to Scrolling tab
3. Set Scrollbar is to On the left side, then to On the right side, then to Disabled
4. Set Scrollbar is back to On the left side

Expected results:

• The position of the scrollbar changes depending on the item selected from Scrollbar is, the terminal contents are scrollable by using mouse wheel for any value of Scrollbar is

Changing scrollback depth

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to Scrolling tab
3. Set Scrollback to the 512, click Close
4. View the contents of some lengthy file by using command like cat /var/log/syslog, scroll the output to the first line
5. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to Scrolling tab
6. Set Scrollback to Unlimited, click Close
7. View the contents of some lengthy file by using command like cat /var/log/syslog, scroll the output to the first line

Expected results:

• The depth of the terminal scrollback maybe changed, setting it to Unlimited allows user to view whole log-file

Setting scroll on output option

Select this option to enable you to scroll the output on the terminal while the terminal continues to display more output from a command.

== TBW ==

Setting scroll on keystroke option

Select this option to enable you to press any key on the keyboard to scroll down the terminal window to the command prompt. This action only applies if you scrolled up the terminal window and you want to return to the command prompt.

== TBW ==

Compatibility

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Edit → Profile Preferences, navigate to Compatibility tab
3. Select some non-default value from the pull-down menu Backspace key generates
4. Select some non-default value from the pull-down menu Delete key generates
5. Click on Reset Compatibility Options to Defaults

Expected results:

• User is able to change the compatibility options, click on the Reset Compatibility Options to Defaults sets Backspace key generates to ASCII DEL and Delete key generates to Escape sequence

View

Show Menubar

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Uncheck VIew → Show Menubar
3. Do right mouse click in the terminal are and select Show Menubar from drop-down menu

Expected results:

• The visibility of Menubar is changed accordingly to the state Show Menubar of menu items

Full Screen

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select View → Full Screen (or press <F11>)
3. Press <F11> again to exit from full screen mode

Expected results:

• User is able to set MATE Terminal window to full screen window, the <F11> key changes the size of window

Zoom In

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select View → Zoom In (or press <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<+>)

Expected results:

• The size of terminal window and font inside it become larger on each Zoom In operation

Zoom Out

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select View → Zoom On (or press <Ctrl>+<->)

Expected results:

• The size of terminal window and font inside it become smaller on each Zoom Out operation

Normal Size

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select View → Normal Size (or press <Ctrl>+<0>)

Expected results:

• The size of terminal window and font inside it become normal/default after clicking on Normal Size

Search

Find, Find Next, Find Previous

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Execute sudo apt-get update
3. Select Search → Find (or press <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<F>)
4. Fill the Search for field with string http, check Search backwards and Wrap around checkboxes, click Find
5. Select Search → Find Next (or press <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<H>)
6. Select Search → Find Previous (or press <Shift>+<Ctrl>+<G>)

Expected results:

• User is able to search some text in the terminal output

Terminal

Change Profile

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Terminal → Change Profile
3. Choose one of the available profiles by mouse or by using <Alt>+<Page Up> / <Alt>+<Page Down>

Expected results:

• User is able to change profile of the MATE Terminal

Set Title

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select Terminal → Set Title
3. Fill the Title field with new terminal name

Expected results

• User is able to set new name for the terminal, it is shown on the top of window border

Set Character Encoding

Before proceeding one need to obtain some text file in non-UTF-8 encoding.

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select View → Set Character Encoding, then click on Add/Remove to add one or more available encodings (for example, WINDOWS-1251)
3. Switch terminal encoding to the just added by selecting View → Set Character Encoding and clicking on the needed encoding
4. View the encoded file with cat
5. Switch terminal encoding back to the UTF-8 by selecting View → Set Character Encoding and clicking on Unicode (UTF-8)

Expected results:

• the contents of the file in the non-UTF-8 encoding is shown normally when the correct encoding was selected

Reset

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Inverse colors of the terminal by running setterm --inversescreen on
3. Select Terminal → Reset

Expected results:

• Inverse colors was canceled only after resetting the terminal

Reset and Clear

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Inverse colors of the terminal by running setterm --inversescreen on
3. View contents of some file by running cat /etc/os-release
4. Select Terminal → Reset and Clear

Expected results:

• After selecting Reset and Clear the terminal has normal/default colors and reseted scroll-back history

Using predefined sizes

Steps to test:

1. Open MATE Terminal
2. Select View and one of the predefined sizes (for example 80x43 or others)

Expected results:

• Terminal size is changed to the user-defined size

Right mouse click menu in terminal area

This drop-down menu allows to:

• to Open Terminal;
• to Open Tab;
• to Close Window;
• to Copy;
• to Paste;
• to apply profile (select from Profiles submenu);
• to toggle menubar (by checking Show Menubar).

All test for them are already defined for them.