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hi... for months now i am struggling to get mouse selection in urxvt to work reliably. Its just totally frakked.
have a look what it always does for me:
Anyone a clue what this is? can it be fixed? Blockselect works fine, just normal selecting is not.
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I've got that as well, pretty annoying indeed!
I haven't got the time yet to try and solve it myself though...
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That's odd. That looks like the right mouse button behavior, not left. Do you get something different with the other button?
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You probably have somethink like
URxvt.url-launcher: firefox
In your .Xresources/.Xdefaults file. I see in your video that you were trying to 'select' a URL.
urxvt is probably confused as to whether you want to click on a link for your web browser or select some text. I just fixed this for myself by adding the following to my .Xresources file.
URxvt.matcher.button: 2
Now I can use mouse button 1 to select text, and the middle button to launch a web browser for a URL. I always thought that the middle button was button 3, but my .Xresources is as above and my middle button launches so whatever is going on is ok by me.
Note: I also have
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcher
in .Xresources as well.
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