On Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 13:06:40 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:20:05 -0400 > gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > Now, I really need a terminal for alt-ctl-F3 that does support the > > mouse. > > charles@hawk:~$ apt show gpm
[ … ] > Description: General Purpose Mouse interface > This package provides a daemon that captures mouse events when the system > console is active, and delivers events to applications through a library. > . > By default, the daemon provides a 'selection' mode, so that > cut-and-paste with the mouse works on the console just as it does > under X. Sure, I always install gpm, and it might even be on my list because donkey's years ago you needed it for cut and paste on X, using the -R repeater mode. But cutting from a VC more or less forces you to paste to an intermediate file, which you can then copy into a graphical email client. To do that requires another VC for the paste, and all this complication is just so that the OP doesn't find out how to use a text terminal that I'm sure they're running as a matter of course. (Sure, you can keep a car in the garage and spend Sunday afternoons listening to the radio and waggling the steering wheel, but the idea is that you learn to drive.) I don't think someone who can barely remember Ctrl-Alt-F3 is going to do much inter-VC cut and pasting. Cheers, David.
