Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] mlterm: weird mouse behaviour

[John S. <jd...@ca...>]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Christian Victor Schulz wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 02:03:06PM +0200, John Smith wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Christian Victor Schulz wrote:
>>
>>> @John Smith:
>>> Have you tried using the Wayland version mlterm-wl? This may solve your
>>> problem.
>>
>> It does! Many thanks for this inspired suggestion. However, building mlterm-wl
>> produces a bare window without the normal Ubuntu decorations. I have never
>> compiled anything for Wayland before, and have googled without success for a
>> solution. So I need a little more help.
>>
>> John Smith
>
> Oh well, I forgot about that. The problem is that Gnome's Wayland
> session does not provide server-side window decorations; instead, the
> clients, e.g. mlterm, have to render the decorations themselves. This is
> called client-side window decorations. There have been lots of
> acrimonious discussions about this "feature" which you can read up on if
> you are interested, but this will not change anytime soon (there are
> other wayland compositors like sway that do have server-side
> decorations) and mlterm does not provide any window decorations. I don't
> know whether Araki Ken plans to implement this at some point.
>
> I forgot about it because I don't use Gnome anymore. Unfortunately, it
> probably renders my idea useless. Let's see what Araki Ken has to say
> about this, but for now, here are some other ideas:
>
> 1. Does the mouse behave weirdly under Gnome's X11 session as well? You
> can choose the X11 session when logging in. I think it is called "GNOME
> Classic". This is a somewhat temporary solution, but X11 support will
> probably not be dropped anytime soon.
>
> 2. mlterm can masquerade as a libvte terminal. libvte is the library
> that is used by Gnome Terminal and many other terminal emulators
> (termite, guake, ...). The way this works is that the libvte library
> headers are replaced so that if you start e.g. a Gnome terminal, the
> terminal will actually be an mlterm within the normal Gnome terminal
> window. This could maybe solve your problem, but setting it up is a bit
> involved and I never tried it.  You can find instructions on how to do
> this in src/tip/gtk/README.
>
> Christian Schulz
>
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Thank you for this very helpful and informative response!

I would not want to use the “Classic”  desktop, but I did check it out. mlterm
is not usable there either.

The idea of running a gnome-terminal that is really an mlterm sounds much more
appealing, and I shall try it out sometime in the next days.

John Smith


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