Re: xterm. Was Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 13:06:40 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:20:05 -0400
> gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
>
> > Now, I really need a terminal for alt-ctl-F3 that does support the
> > mouse.
>
> charles@hawk:~$ apt show gpm
[ … ]
> Description: General Purpose Mouse interface
> This package provides a daemon that captures mouse events when the system
> console is active, and delivers events to applications through a library.
> .
> By default, the daemon provides a 'selection' mode, so that
> cut-and-paste with the mouse works on the console just as it does
> under X.
Sure, I always install gpm, and it might even be on my list because
donkey's years ago you needed it for cut and paste on X, using the
-R repeater mode.
But cutting from a VC more or less forces you to paste to an
intermediate file, which you can then copy into a graphical
email client. To do that requires another VC for the paste,
and all this complication is just so that the OP doesn't find
out how to use a text terminal that I'm sure they're running
as a matter of course. (Sure, you can keep a car in the garage
and spend Sunday afternoons listening to the radio and waggling
the steering wheel, but the idea is that you learn to drive.)
I don't think someone who can barely remember Ctrl-Alt-F3 is going
to do much inter-VC cut and pasting.
Cheers,
David.
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