Re: Two video cards ... separate text and graphical usage

phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Dances With Crows wrote:
If your programs are writing lots of junk to stdout, why not redirect
that stdout to a file?
I do want to see the output. I don't have to be able to read every line
to be able to get an idea what it does.

Pipe it through grep, then.

There are also other details like when doing double and triple
clicking to highlight words or lines, this doesn't work as desired.
"man xterm" and grep for "character classes" for how to change that
behavior in xterm.
I'd prefer a config file so I can keep the setting.

xterm, like most old X apps, *has* a config file. It uses X resources
to store information. X resource information is commonly found in
~/.Xdefaults , and is of the form $PROGRAM.$CATEGORY.$SUBCATEGORY:
setting. This is not the way most new users want to do things, but it
does work and has persisted through tradition and inertia.

One problem I have with X is that when I move the cursor over some
text, and try to highlight some text, it usually misses the first
character even though I clearly am on that character. I have to move
the cursor to in front of the character to be able to highlight it.
That I find to be very awkward.

This is how practically every text-using app has worked since the days
of MacOS in the 1980s. People like the I-beam and it's become a de
facto standard.

The cursor is a shape of a narrow and tall letter "I". I want a
cursor that is a block that fully covers a character and is fully
aligned with it (e.g. moves in steps of character cells).

It'll be easier for you to change your behavior than for you to change
this aspect of the terminal emulator you're using.

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