On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 02:30:31PM +0200, Tobias Girstmair wrote: > 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. VTE (the actual terminal emulator for GNOME Terminal) has done that for quite a while, anytime the application turns on the mouse-mode. Likewise Konsole. Which was first is hard to say... That's unrelated to the alternate buffer. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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