Re: [sshmenu] Can't install sshmenu

[Andrew D. <ade...@gm...>]

I always forget about middle click. Probably because I find clicking a 
mouse wheel awkward at best. It would be good if I could reconfigure 
gnome-terminal to make button 2 paste and the middle button to bring up 
the menu. I paste far more often than I use that menu...

On 11/18/2015 02:09 PM, Grant McLean wrote:
> I did look at one Gnome3 extension that offered a drop-down menu for SSH
> connections (and other connections).  I think it might have been this
> one:
>
>    https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/45/connection-manager/
>
> The comments on that page suggest it stopped working a while a go and
> might be abandoned, but the code might be a useful starting point.
>
> If I understand your text selection issue correctly, this is what works
> for me:
>
>   1. Highlight text in gnome-terminal (or other app) using the mouse
>   2. Use middle click to paste (possibly in another window)
>
> On my desktop system, the middle click is achieved but pressing down on
> the scroll wheel.
>
> On other systems, such as some laptops, which have a left and a right
> button, you can configure an X setting to emulate the middle button by
> pressing left and right simultaneously.
>
> On my HP laptop the touch pad has no buttons but can be clicked.  I have
> customised the X settings to define tap regions to trigger left, right
> and middle clicks.
>
> Grant
>
> On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 12:58 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> Is that applets like in screenlets? Those things are always so buggy.
>> I hate Unity and Gnome3's not really to my liking though I should play
>> with it more. I like compiz and all the whiz bangy flying windows and
>> transparencies... Never tried XFCE.
>>
>> Do you know of anything else that will allow you to manage many
>> terminals in an organized fashion? As a sysadmin of sorts with often
>> lots of machine to manage I like having them on a menu so I can
>> arrange and categorize them so I can find machines quickly.
>>
>> I'm not much of a Ruby guy but I grew up in a compiler language lab so
>> languages are sorta my thing. I haven't done any panel extensions but
>> I have done some Javascript. If you could point me to some examples
>> perhaps I could port this. Would you suggest I go to Gnome3 and target
>> that?
>>
>> Oh and another thing, if you might happen to know - do you know of any
>> way to change gnome-terminal such that merely selecting text makes it
>> so that you can paste it into another application? I mean I don't like
>> having to right click and select copy nor do I like to do Ctrl-Shift-C
>> all the time. I want it to be just put in the cutbuffer as soon as
>> text selection stops.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> On 11/18/2015 12:00 PM, Grant McLean wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, SSHMenu is pretty much abandonware at this point.
>>>
>>> The main problem with trying to run SSHMenu on a modern desktop is that
>>> neither Unity nor Gnome3 really support applets any more.  For a while I
>>> was running XFCE and managed to run the standalone version of SSHMenu in
>>> the panel using the capture applet.  I have since moved to Gnome3 -
>>> which I quite like, but the panel extensions are all Javascript-based so
>>> the existing SSHMenu Ruby code isn't compatible.
>>>
>>> You may be able to make the existing code work in standalone mode, but
>>> you'd need to check out the code from the repo (rather than install from
>>> OS packages) and probably tweak a few things to work with the latest
>>> Ruby-GTK libraries.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Grant
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2015-11-18 at 10:56 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to install sshmenu-gnome (or sshmenu for that matter) and
>>>> I'm hitting unmet dependencies:
>>>>          Andromeda:sudo apt-get install sshmenu-gnome
>>>>          Reading package lists... Done
>>>>          Building dependency tree
>>>>          Reading state information... Done
>>>>          Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you
>>>>          have
>>>>          requested an impossible situation or if you are using the
>>>>          unstable
>>>>          distribution that some required packages have not yet been
>>>>          created
>>>>          or been moved out of Incoming.
>>>>          The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>>>          
>>>>          The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>>           sshmenu-gnome : Depends: sshmenu but it is not going to be
>>>>          installed
>>>>                           Depends: libgnome2-ruby but it is not
>>>>          installable
>>>>                           Depends: libpanel-applet2-ruby but it is not
>>>>          installable
>>>>                           Depends: libgconf2-ruby but it is not
>>>>          installable
>>>>          E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>>>          Andromeda:
>>>> I'm on Ubuntu 14.10. Is there anyway to get this working?
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