double left click on text (xterm and elsewhere) questions
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Fri Dec 18 17:19:44 UTC 2020
At Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:38:03 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu 17 Dec 2020 at 22:35, Robert Heller wrote:
>
> > OK, I have moved from using CentOS (4,5,6) to Ubuntu 18.04 and have things
> > *mostly* behaving the way I want. There is still one *anoying*
> > difference:
> > the way text selection works. When I was running CentOS, double left
> > click on
> > any text area (xterms, Firefox, etc.) it highlighted/selected a "word",
> > defined as a solid block of alphanums, with a *few* other charactors
> > (underscore, and maybe a few others). Under Ubuntu it seems to have a
> > broader
> > definiation of "word". Where is this defined? What is different with
> > Ubuntu
> > from CentOS?
> >
>
> You should look at CharClass default, it may work to change it in your
> .Xdefault file or in some system-wide configuration file as
> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm (you can find an example for charClass in
> the file).
Hmmm... I have already found something interesting: my CentOS root file system
lacks a /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm file and the Ubuntu one contains such a
file, and contains a CharClass setting with a comment about double-clicking on
a URL... I'm guessing xterm's compiled in default is probably what I want (it
is probably what I am used to from when I first used XTerms under DECWindows
way back when).
>
> Loïc
>
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