This patch hopefully solves a bug that causes that when a tab (channel or private...

This was previously submitted as an issue in: https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/1948
Maybe it isn't the ideal way to solve it, but at least I tested it and it seems to work.

diff --git a/src/fe-gtk/xtext.c b/src/fe-gtk/xtext.c
index 6151f5b67b752a973ba67623eb96659db585cd08..6691277e7eff008259ebe9c951856aca74fbec2f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/fe-gtk/xtext.c
+++ b/src/fe-gtk/xtext.c
@@ -4964,6 +4964,14 @@ gtk_xtext_buffer_show (GtkXText *xtext, xtext_buffer *buf, int render)
        dontscroll (buf);       /* force scrolling off */
        xtext->adj->value = buf->old_value;
        xtext->adj->upper = buf->num_lines;
+
+       /* if the scrollbar was down, keep it down */
+       if (xtext->buffer->scrollbar_down && xtext->adj->value <
+               xtext->adj->upper - xtext->adj->page_size)
+       {
+               xtext->adj->value = xtext->adj->upper - xtext->adj->page_size;
+       }
+
        if (xtext->adj->upper == 0)
                xtext->adj->upper = 1;
        /* sanity check */