First, thanks for all your replies. On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 01:29:24PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: > 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. This is what I wanted to say - GNOME Terminal, Konsole and others change the cursor to an arrow, but xTerm doesn't.
> > 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 This is the document I used to piece information together. > > (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. Bummer - But at least I know now. > > Marius Gedminas Thanks to all of you for your help! tobias _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
