Do not let terminal take focus

[spbnick]

Now, since we have implemented all shortcuts in JavaScript, users don't need to send any keystrokes to tlog-play itself. Similarly, the future JavaScript-based player wouldn't need that. Therefore, we need to remove the ability of the terminal to take focus. Otherwise it captures keystrokes and masks them from the browser, which is confusing and annoying.

[sabbaka]

I've made some research - so focus is highly pushed in term.js itself.
I've tried to catch mousedown events in both recordings and terminal - but anyway focus ends up in terminal div while there is a playback ( an active session ).

[spbnick]

We'll need to somehow disable that. An optimal solution would be to have some sort of control over this in upstream code, and use that.

[spbnick]

E.g. an initialization option, or run-time switch.

[spbnick]

Another related thing: we need the terminal to display cursor even if it is not focused.

[sabbaka]

xtermjs/xterm.js#891

[sabbaka]

I've accomplished this by editing term.js

[sabbaka]

In summary I am not very happy about this solution, but have not found else one.
To test it put replace your node_modules/term.js-cockpit/src/term.js.
term.zip

[sabbaka]

And one more thing - focus is actually irrelevant, of course we might remove all related to handling key downs in term.js ( which of course won't be a good idea since we want to move to using xterm.js one day ), because our event handler for key down is reacting no matter of focus on terminal's div.