Text selected when I do double click in it

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Tue Sep 2 02:12:00 GMT 2008


<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>  Reformatted.

davidkont wrote:
> Mark Reed-2 wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, davidkont wrote:
>>> Hi Larry, in principle I'm interested in continue with fvwm because it
>>> works
>>> very well, this issue is the unique problem that I see...
>>>
>>> Thanks anyway...
>> You're not understanding.  rxvt doesn't replace fvwm.  They are
>> completely separate.  fvwm is a window manager; it draws the
>> decorations around X windows and lets you close them etc.  rxvt is a
>> terminal program - it's what runs inside the decorations to give you a
>> place to type commands.
>>
>> When you run Cygwin via the default .BAT, you get a Windows console
>> window as your terminal program, which is not a very good one.  If
>> you're using full-screen fvwm, you probably use xterm as your terminal
>> program - but the double-clicking should work for that, so I'm not at
>> all clear on what your environment looks like.
>>
>> But either way, you can easily use rxvt instead, which has friendlier
>> behavior for selecting text.
 > Hi Larry,
 >
 > Thanks!! You helped me much!!

You're welcome.  Though I would give some credit to Mark for taking the
time to help you understand my response. :-)

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