>> On Tue 25 Mar 2025 at 07:55:28 (-0400), Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:38:25 +0100
> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>> Try with xterm. Try with LO writer. They drop the selection
>
> Fair enough. I rarely use either xterm or LO writer. Will give it a
> try.
When I started using xterm, I couldn't copy with the mouse and drag past
the top or bottom of the screen. The workaround for me is to single-click
anywhere in the terminal history, go where I want, then right-click once
and the whole area between clicks is copied.
I'm including my .Xdefaults in case you find something useful.
--
Karl Vogel I don't speak for anyone but myself
I've learned that our dog doesn't want to eat my broccoli either.
--Advice given by kids
! @(#)Xdefaults 35.1 94/09/01 OpenWindows Default X Resources
!
! $Revision: 1.21+9 $ $Date: 2023-02-17 19:56:10-05 $
! $Source: /home/vogelke/RCS/.Xdefaults,v $
! $Host: furbag.my.domain $
! $UUID: d96b735c-1cb3-455e-aa5a-ad499f3a3d84 $
!
!--------------------------------------------------------------------------
! OBSOLETE?
! Xmessage*font: -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--*
! Xmessage*nearMouse: True
! AcroRead.geometry: 1040x830-0+0
!--------------------------------------------------------------------------
! Xft: X Freetype.
! The more important font DPI setting can be configured by either changing
! the default Xft.dpi: 96 setting in /etc/X11/Xresources OR by creating
! a $HOME/.Xresources file with Xft.dpi: VALUE, for example:
Xft.dpi: 110
! How to fine tune TTF rendering in Xterm
! https://superuser.com/questions/867335/
!
! Xterm configuration colors work font size not
! https://superuser.com/questions/1167528/
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.autohint: false
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault
Xft.rgba: rgb
! Use in combination with xrandr (must run twice for some reason):
! xrandr --dpi 110; xrandr --dpi 110
!--------------------------------------------------------------------------
! Xterm:
! Got some of this from clark.net distribution and FAQ list.
XTerm*internalBorder: 10
XTerm*highlightSelection: true
XTerm*VT100*colorBDMode: on
XTerm*VT100*colorBD: blue
XTerm*VT100*colorULMode: on
XTerm*VT100*colorUL: magenta
XTerm.VT100.eightBitInput: true
XTerm.VT100.eightBitOutput: true
XTerm*scrollBar: true
XTerm.VT100.titeInhibit: true
XTerm.VT100*colorMode: on
XTerm.VT100*dynamicColors: on
! scrollback buffer lines - 65535 is max on most machines (64 is default)
XTerm*saveLines: 20000
! http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html
! XTerm may show boxes instead of characters if the font that you have
! selected does not contain those characters. Normally you can fix most
! of that using the UTF-8 feature, with uxterm. However, your X resource
! settings may be the source of the problem.
!
! XTerm uses the utf8Fonts subresources to provide runtime-switchable
! fonts between IS0-8859-1 (Latin-1) and ISO-10646 (Unicode). Modifying
! the Unicode font to "fixed" will make most of the characters unavailable
! (i.e., shown as boxes). Use this to NOT modify the utf8Fonts value:
*VT100.font: fixed
! http://terrencemiao.com/Webmail/msg00726.html
! how to set up xterm to control your mouse double-click selection
! Terrence Miao
! Thu, 8 Jan 2004 03:17:50 -0500
!
! The string "33:48,37:48,45-47:48,64:48" indicates that the exclamation
! mark, percent sign, dash, period, slash, and ampersand characters
! should be treated the same way as characters and numbers:
! XTerm*charClass: 33:48,37:48,45-47:48,64:48
!
! ASCII table:
! Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char
! ---------------------- ----------------------
! 040 32 20 SPACE 073 59 3B ;
! 041 33 21 ! 074 60 3C <
! 042 34 22 double-quote 075 61 3D =
! 043 35 23 # 076 62 3E >
! 044 36 24 $ 077 63 3F ?
! 045 37 25 % 100 64 40 @
! 046 38 26 &
! 047 39 27 single-quote 133 91 5B [
! 050 40 28 ( 134 92 5C \ '\\'
! 051 41 29 ) 135 93 5D ]
! 052 42 2A * 136 94 5E ^
! 053 43 2B + 137 95 5F _
! 054 44 2C , 140 96 60 `
! 055 45 2D -
! 056 46 2E . 173 123 7B {
! 057 47 2F / 174 124 7C |
! 175 125 7D }
! 072 58 3A : 176 126 7E ~
!
! To select all but space character (includes square brackets):
! XTerm.VT100*charClass: 33-47:48,58-64:48,91-96:48,123-126:48
! To select all but space, backslash and square brackets:
XTerm.VT100*charClass: 33-47:48,58-64:48,94-96:48,123-126:48
! Some OS versions get this wrong.
XTerm.VT100*termName: xterm-color
! Xterm should do jump scrolling. Normally, text is scrolled one line
! at a time; this option allows xterm to move multiple lines at a time so
! that it does not fall as far behind. Its use is strongly recommended
! since it makes xterm much faster.
XTerm*jumpScroll: true
! An xterm should be a login shell that honors .profile and generally
! initializes the shell environment the way you expect. I have no idea
! why the default is to not do this.
XTerm*loginShell: true
! Xterm may scroll asynchronously, meaning that the screen does not have
! to be kept completely up to date while scrolling. This allows xterm to
! run faster.
XTerm*multiScroll: true
! Uncomment this to use color for underline attribute
XTerm.VT100*colorULMode: on
XTerm.VT100*underLine: off
! Uncomment this to use color for the bold attribute
XTerm.VT100*colorBDMode: on
XTerm.VT100*color0: black
XTerm.VT100*color1: red3
XTerm.VT100*color2: green3
XTerm.VT100*color3: yellow3
XTerm.VT100*color4: blue3
XTerm.VT100*color5: magenta3
XTerm.VT100*color6: cyan3
XTerm.VT100*color7: gray90
XTerm.VT100*color8: gray30
XTerm.VT100*color9: red
XTerm.VT100*color10: green
XTerm.VT100*color11: yellow
XTerm.VT100*color12: blue
XTerm.VT100*color13: magenta
XTerm.VT100*color14: cyan
XTerm.VT100*color15: white
XTerm.VT100*colorUL: blue
XTerm.VT100*colorBD: white
XTerm.VT100*cursorColor: blue
! stop chinese character mode?
! XTerm.VT100*eightBitOutput: false
! properly set erase keys; did not work. --KEV
!Xterm*ptyInitialErase: true
! Use this to change mappings; from rxvt distribution --KEV
XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \
<Key>Prior: scroll-back(1,page) \n\
<Key>Next: scroll-forw(1,page) \n\
<Key>Home: scroll-back(100,page) \n\
<Key>End: scroll-forw(100,page) \n\
<Key>BackSpace: string(\010) \n\
Meta<Key>Prior: scroll-back(1,line) \n\
Meta<Key>Next: scroll-forw(1,line) \n\
Shift<Key>Prior: scroll-back(3,line) \n\
Shift<Key>Next: scroll-forw(3,line) \n
! You can also change the pointer shape, but apparently only to shapes
! specified in the X cursor font, not to other icons loaded as part of
! a cursor theme.
! XTerm*pointerShape: double_arrow works, but is confusing when you try
! to lengthen a given window vertically.
XTerm*pointerShape: plus
! http://shallowsky.com/linux/x-cursor-themes.html
! Using and modifying X cursor themes for big and contrasty mouse cursors
! Tue, 8 Jul 2014 12:27:05 -0400
!
! But I did manage to make the I-beam cursor stand out quite a
! bit more, with these X resources:
XTerm*pointerColor: blue
XTerm*pointerColorBackground: red
!--------------------------------------------------------------------------
! Misc, may not need these any more.
! dt.obsolete: true
! EOF
