Re: copy and paste, under Wayland, and to and from an XTerm, was relating to dl audio and video

Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> writes:

* Some text applications can have mouse support and "steal mouse" and do their own thing. For example, in vim sometimes I have to use shift click to mark or paste text. But now I try to reproduce this on demand and I can't ... go figure. Google says the config value is "set mouse=a"

Oh, I found out why this is confusing me. Turns out if I ssh into a Debian account as root, by default I get mouse=a - so I have to use shift click everywhere, but with my own custom config I have mouse= -- Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/