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Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?



Hi,

On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 15:17:25 -0500
Lee <ler762@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/7/22, riveravaldez <riveravaldezmail@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/7/22, Lee <ler762@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> background:
> >> There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian -
> >
> > Hi, do you mean 'Debian' there?, I'm not sure what's the situation.
> 
> The situation is that I absolutely hate the default user interface.
> Scroll bars that play hide & seek, that when they are visible are tiny
> wire-like things, clicking above/below the scrollbar takes you ..
> somewhere & what I want is one page up or down, etc.

I guess that this is probably no option for you, but I thought I'd
mention anyway:
the scrollbar behaviour you describe appears to be what an old-fashioned
terminal like urxvt (package rxvt-unicode) does here. The scrollbar looks
real old-fashioned (motif-style) though, in case that matters.

> 
> I found https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 and that fixed most of
> the UI problems, but the terminal right-click to paste requiring a
> left click to actually paste was a deal-breaker.  So I was still using
> windows/cygwin to ssh to my debian machine to do most everything
> there.
> 
> In short, I found the UI basically unusable.

In case you have a mouse with a wheel, what's wrong with middle-button
pasting? I don't know about xfce4-terminal, but this works fine here with
urxvt and lxterminal and probably most other terminal applications as
well.

Have a nice day,

Michael

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