On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:43:24AM +0200, Henrik Pauli wrote: > I know you said it's a bit off-topic here, but I noticed something and thought > it might be related to Tobias's question. In Konsole (and also in > mate-terminal), if I open mc (which I think is an ncurses application), the > mouse pointer changes to arrow (from the normal I-beam thing); however it does > not do so in xterm. less also uses the alternative buffer just like mc, but > does not cause the pointer to change, so I guess it's not merely the terminal > mode change that triggers this behaviour in Konsole and mate-terminal.
I would guess the terminal reacts this way to the application enabling mouse tracking: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h2-Mouse-Tracking (Just like some terminals react to the application switching to the alternate screen by disabling the scrollbar and changing the mouse wheel to send up/down arrow key events instead of scrolling.) > Is this perhaps some feature that is missing from xterm then but exists in > Konsole/mate-terminal? xterm supports mouse tracking, but doesn't change the mouse cursor to indicate this. Marius Gedminas -- (Why, oh! why is X not written in Lisp?) -- Juliusz Chroboczek
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