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Re: Text selected when I do double click in it


Hi Larry,

Thanks!! You helped me much!!


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.
> 
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