Re: terminal with right-click = paste?
On 4/10/19, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 10 Apr 2019 at 17:21:06 (-0400), Lee wrote:
>> On 4/10/19, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> > Lee wrote:
>> >> On 4/10/19, Dan Ritter wrote:
>> >> > Lee wrote:
>> >> >> I installed the xfce version of debian 9 & have a terminal icon on
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> menu bar that starts xfce4-terminal
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Is there some way to configure xfce4-terminal so that a right mouse
>> >> >> click pastes text?
>> >> >> What I have now is right-click brings up a menu where I have to
>> >> >> left
>> >> >> click on paste. ick.
>> >> >
>> >> > Middle button is probably set to paste right now.
>> >>
>> >> It is!! So how do I change that setting so that right click is set to
>> >> paste?
>> >
>> > You don't! The programmers didn't include that.
>>
>> wow. just.. wow. I wonder if that omission has anything to do with
>> the xterm popcon graph showing about 100K users & xfce4-terminal
>> about 28K
>>
>> > You can change your button mapping for all of X with xmodmap.
>>
>> but then everywhere I expect a right click to pull up a menu won't -
>> correct?
>>
>> Oh well... I'll give xterm a try.
>
> I have a mouse with a wheel, but pressing it (as opposed to scrolling
> it) is very unreliable. I have changed the middle-click method from
> pressing the wheel to the old-fashioned way of dealing with 2-button
> mice: pressing both buttons at once.
>
> AFAIK this change is at the level of X and doesn't depend on the term.
> Here are the steps I used. You might need to tweak the filename
> ~/.xsession for a DE as I use just startx and fvwm. For setting stuff
> automatically, you need to ascertain the name of your X startup file.
I don't know enough to appreciate all this, much less comment on it,
but still, it looks amazing!
$ find / -name xinput 2>/dev/null
$
so another package I need to install..
.. which breaks the login process for me :(
$ echo xinput > ~/.xsession
logout, try to log in, get a blank screen for a few seconds & I'm back
at the login screen again.
ssh in from my windows machine, rm .xsession, and I can log in on the
debian machine again.
Dunno if this means anything, but the last few lines in .xsession-errors.old are
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting GDMSESSION=lightdm-xsession
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL=1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent:0:1
dbus-update-activation-environment: setting PWD=/home/lee
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
Why does putting 'xinput' in my .xsession keep me from being able to
log in & it works just fine for you?
Thanks,
Lee
>
> At the end of ~/.xsession I routinely put
> xinput
> which lists the devices in ~/.xsession-errors which I copy into my
> configuration archive. But you can just type
> $ xinput at any commandline in X:
> ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
> ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
> ⎜ ↳ Logitech M325 id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
> ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
> ⎜ ↳ ELAN Touchscreen id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
> ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
> ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Lenovo EasyCamera id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ Ideapad extra buttons id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
> ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
> $
>
> Having read that list, I add lines for devices that might interest me
> in a similar way (in ~/.xsession-9-wren¹), and again you can type this
> at a commandline:
> $ xinput list-props "Logitech M325"
> Device 'Logitech M325':
> Device Enabled (141): 1
> Coordinate Transformation Matrix (143): 0.300000, 0.000000, 0.000000,
> 0.000000, 0.300000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
> libinput Accel Speed (281): 0.000000
> libinput Accel Speed Default (282): 0.000000
> libinput Accel Profiles Available (283): 1, 1
> libinput Accel Profile Enabled (284): 1, 0
> libinput Accel Profile Enabled Default (285): 1, 0
> libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (286): 0
> libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (287): 0
> libinput Send Events Modes Available (262): 1, 0
> libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (263): 0, 0
> libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (264): 0, 0
> libinput Left Handed Enabled (288): 0
> libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (289): 0
> libinput Scroll Methods Available (290): 0, 0, 1
> libinput Scroll Method Enabled (291): 0, 0, 0
> libinput Scroll Method Enabled Default (292): 0, 0, 0
> libinput Button Scrolling Button (293): 2
> libinput Button Scrolling Button Default (294): 2
> libinput Middle Emulation Enabled (295): 1
> libinput Middle Emulation Enabled Default (296): 0
> Device Node (265): "/dev/input/event16"
> Device Product ID (266): 1133, 16394
> libinput Drag Lock Buttons (297): <no items>
> libinput Horizontal Scroll Enabled (298): 1
> $
>
> Your list would look different even with the same hardware because
> mine shows the effect of the mouse commands I have already added
> to ~/.xsession:
> # Pointers tend to be too sensitive.
> # Leave the last number as 1: the other numbers are ratio'd with it.
> xinput --set-prop "Logitech M325" "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" .3, 0,
> 0, 0, .3, 0, 0, 0, 1
> # My mouse wheel is very unreliable for button 2, so use buttons 1&3.
> xinput --set-prop "Logitech M325" "libinput Middle Emulation Enabled" 1
>
> Now I can use either a wheel press or a both-button-click to paste.
> The wheel still scrolls.
>
> ¹ A note on the filenames: My .xsession has hooks for host-specific
> commands at three stages:
>
> Earlyconfig="$HOME/.xsession-1-$HOSTNAME"
> Midconfig="$HOME/.xsession-5-$HOSTNAME"
> Lateconfig="$HOME/.xsession-9-$HOSTNAME"
>
> … various commands here …
> … and, nearing the end: …
>
> [ -f "$Lateconfig" ] && . "$Lateconfig"
>
> so the specific device lists are only about the hosts' own hardware,
> plus things that might be connected, whereas the configuration
> commands themselves are executed on all my hosts (and are ignored
> if not present). That way, the both-button-click works wherever the
> mouse is connected.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
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