Hi, On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 15:17:25 -0500 Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/7/22, riveravaldez <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/7/22, Lee <[email protected]> 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 play hide & seek, that when they are visible are tiny > wire-like things, clicking above/below the scrollbar takes you .. > somewhere & what I want is one page up or down, etc. I guess that this is probably no option for you, but I thought I'd mention anyway: the scrollbar behaviour you describe appears to be what an old-fashioned terminal like urxvt (package rxvt-unicode) does here. The scrollbar looks real old-fashioned (motif-style) though, in case that matters. > > I found https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 and that fixed most of > the UI problems, but the terminal right-click to paste requiring a > left click to actually paste was a deal-breaker. So I was still using > windows/cygwin to ssh to my debian machine to do most everything > there. > > In short, I found the UI basically unusable. In case you have a mouse with a wheel, what's wrong with middle-button pasting? I don't know about xfce4-terminal, but this works fine here with urxvt and lxterminal and probably most other terminal applications as well. Have a nice day, Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. You say you are lying. But if everything you say is a lie, then you are telling the truth. You cannot tell the truth because everything you say is a lie. You lie, you tell the truth ... but you cannot, for you lie. -- Norman the android, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3
