Re: Lost highlight
On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 13:18:52 -0700
Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
On 11/1/22 12:55, stan via users wrote:
> I have a similar experience, except that I used to be able to double
> click with the left button to select, and paste at the text cursor
> with the center button, or left button drag to select and paste at
> the text cursor with the center button in programs like claws-mail
> and gvim. That hasn't worked for some time. I assumed that it was
> because of the decreased support for X because of wayland or that
> the mouse driver was rewritten or there was a security issue. The
> workarounds are clumsy. The technique still works in the virtual
> consoles (F1-F6), so something in the gui handling of mouse clicks
> has changed.
Are you using Wayland or X for the desktop? In Wayland, I just
tested drag and middle-click in gvim and it worked fine.
X, and with LXDE. I've been meaning to check if wayland now allows
custom keymappings. Maybe time to try gnome or kde again. In X, when
I use gvim it pastes the selected text at the mouse cursor. So, if I'm
editing something and want to grab some phrase from the text above, and
paste it at the text cursor where I am typing, it makes a mess by
pasting it where the mouse cursor is. Same in Claws mail.
If you have mouse support in the virtual consoles, I assume
you're
running gpm, which is completely different than mouse support in the
graphical desktop.
Yes, running gpm. If I select something in vim, and click the middle
button, it puts the text at the text cursor where I am typing, not at
the mouse cursor. X used to behave like this for me. I find it
convenient, saves me from moving around in the file with the text
position.