Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-08 Thread Linux-Fan
Greg Wooledge writes: On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 12:16:44AM +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > In case you have a mouse with a wheel, what's wrong with middle-button > pasting? It is worth mentioning that the common Windows program to access Linux machines over SSH `putty.exe` has the right-click

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread John Crawley
On 08/01/2022 12:00, David Wright wrote: On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 14:46:04 (-0500), Lee wrote: right - another unknown. There's a /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal.wrapper that starts off with #! /usr/bin/perl -w # # Terminal.wrapper - Debian terminal wrapper script which I don't know who calls or even

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 20:01:34 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 12:16:44AM +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > > In case you have a mouse with a wheel, what's wrong with middle-button > > pasting? > > It's virtually impossible to press the wheel without accidentally turning > it,

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 14:46:04 (-0500), Lee wrote: > On 1/7/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:26:22PM -0500, Lee wrote: > >> so what are the downsides, if any, to replacing > >> /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal with the one I build from the xfce4-terminal > >> 0.9.1 source tarball? >

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 12:16:44AM +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > In case you have a mouse with a wheel, what's wrong with middle-button > pasting? It's virtually impossible to press the wheel without accidentally turning it, either forward or backward. Depending on where you're clicking, this

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 15:17:25 -0500 Lee wrote: > On 1/7/22, riveravaldez wrote: > > On 1/7/22, Lee wrote: > >> background: > >> There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - > > > > Hi, do you mean 'Debian' there?, I'm not sure what's the situation. > > The situation is

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I *am* an xfce4 user. I use the terminal emulator most of the time. I asked for a terminal emulator at installation, and I got lxterminal. Works good. The scroll bar is over on the right, where it's supposed to be. Real thin, but it's there.

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Lee
On 1/7/22, riveravaldez wrote: > On 1/7/22, Lee wrote: >> background: >> There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - > > Hi, do you mean 'Debian' there?, I'm not sure what's the situation. The situation is that I absolutely hate the default user interface. Scroll bars that

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Brian
On Fri 07 Jan 2022 at 13:26:22 -0500, Lee wrote: > background: > There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - > horrible scrollbars & no right-click to paste in the terminal > > xfce4-terminal v0.9.1 finally has right-click = paste > >

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread riveravaldez
On 1/7/22, Lee wrote: > background: > There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - Hi, do you mean 'Debian' there?, I'm not sure what's the situation. > horrible scrollbars & no right-click to paste in the terminal About the scrollbars I don't know, but, for instance,

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Lee
On 1/7/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:26:22PM -0500, Lee wrote: >> so what are the downsides, if any, to replacing >> /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal with the one I build from the xfce4-terminal >> 0.9.1 source tarball? > > The biggest obvious flaw in doing this is that your custom

Re: downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:26:22PM -0500, Lee wrote: > so what are the downsides, if any, to replacing > /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal with the one I build from the xfce4-terminal > 0.9.1 source tarball? The biggest obvious flaw in doing this is that your custom local version will be overwritten the

downsides to replacing xfce4-terminal?

2022-01-07 Thread Lee
background: There have been two things preventing me to moving to Debian - horrible scrollbars & no right-click to paste in the terminal xfce4-terminal v0.9.1 finally has right-click = paste https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/-/commit/970905924ad685827cee2b2406a3b8a6b6990187 so what