begin nbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:28:33PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > is there a way to modify the selection behavior of the mouse under X? > > It depends on the terminal. It'd be nice if it were some shared, > system-wide preference (it probably is under KDE, knowing them :) ) > > I'm not in front of KDE right now, but under Gnome-Terminal, in the > 'Preferences' window, you can adjust the > "Select-by-word characters" setting.
egads! the first thing that makes me want to use a desktop manager. prolly still won't make me take the cpu hog plunge tho. ;) i'm going to look into mark's suggestion and if it doesn't pan out i'll experiment with booting up gnome when not playing games. > (Note, I had to type this by hand, because the fscking Gnome Help Browser > doesn't let me highlight text to paste. Argh!) yuck. that deserves a bug report. > I can't find anything under xterm like this. > There may be an X resource for it. > (I don't seem to have a man page for xterm! Bizarre! This is Debian!) really? i have an xterm man page. i think it might be symlinked to x-terminal-emulator(1). try manning that. > And under rxvt, maybe I'm stupid, but I can't seem to pop any > preference menus up like I can in xterm and gnome-terminal. i don't think rxvt has one. thanks for the info, bill! pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
