Re: X terminal recommendations (was Re: Mailing list unusually inactive?)

[Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net>]

If you look in /etc/X11/app-defaults you will find resource files for
whatever Xt programs you have installed. My XTerm resource file started
from one of those, but 20-30 years ago. That means there is a bunch of
leftover cruft that I never bothered to remove because it didn't cause
problems.

--Gregory

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 09:54:44AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 25/10/2025 05:42, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> > https://github.com/Anthropohedron/dotfiles/blob/master/XTerm
> 
> I have noticed there
> 
> > XTerm.vt100.translations:	#override \n\
> [...]
> >         None<Key>F11:    select-start() select-end(SECONDARY, CUT_BUFFER1) \n\
> > 	None<Key>F12:    start-extend() select-end(SECONDARY, CUT_BUFFER1) \n\
> >         Shift<Key>F11:    select-start() select-end(SECONDARY, CUT_BUFFER2) \n\
> > 	Shift<Key>F12:    start-extend() select-end(SECONDARY, CUT_BUFFER2) \n\
> 
> Do you really use SECONDARY selection? My impression is that rare
> applications are aware of it nowadays. Cut buffers are almost unusable due
> to encoding issues.
> 
>