Yet another rvxt vs. minTTY 0.3.4

Yet another rvxt vs. minTTY 0.3.4

[David Arnstein]

Here is one thing that Cygwin rxvt does badly. Both Cygwin xterm and
the new Cygwin MinTTY do quite well.

From one of (xterm, rxvt, MinTTY) I telnet into a remote host. On the
remote host, I launch the usenet news reader trn. In trn, text can be
selected with the mouse, even though trn is nominally a text program.
To select text, the user must hold down the shift key, and drag the
mouse (left button pressed).

Both xterm and MinTTY can do this. In my environment, rxvt does
nothing.

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Re: Yet another rvxt vs. minTTY 0.3.4

[Andy Koppe]

David Arnstein wrote:
> From one of (xterm, rxvt, MinTTY) I telnet into a remote host. On the
> remote host, I launch the usenet news reader trn. In trn, text can be
> selected with the mouse, even though trn is nominally a text program.
> To select text, the user must hold down the shift key, and drag the
> mouse (left button pressed).
> 
> Both xterm and MinTTY can do this. In my environment, rxvt does
> nothing.

I think what's happening there is that trn activates application mouse
mode. The default key for overriding that in xterm and MinTTY is Shift,
whereas in rxvt it's Alt.

If you don't want to have to use the override key for selecting in
MinTTY, you can change the "Default click target" in app mouse mode to
"Window". That way, you have to hold the override modifier (which can be
changed) when you do want to send a click to the application running in
the terminal.

The mouse pointer indicates where clicks are going: when it's the
so-called I-bar, it goes to the window, and when it's an arrow it goes
to the app.

Andy

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