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<p>Here is what I get under Debian 10 Buster, Mate desktop and
mate-terminal with libvte :</p>
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<p>There is no selection problem at all.</p>
<p>I looked at you video and don't understand what is represented: a
window without decoration and margin ?<br>
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<div>I notice the same 'bad' behavior on firefox, but there it
provide an hint may be.</div>
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<div>On libvte when clicking and hold down the mouse button on
the middle of a char there is no feedback so we blindly don't
know where the selection will start, then we drag right and
the selection appears on the next char, giving a feeling of
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<div>On firefox (any other app of that kind would do the same, I
am using mate, so may be a window manger feature, so synaptic
search form would behave as firefox), this is different, inea
FORM input field when clicking on the middle of a char like
'W" and holding down the button, the text cursor (thin
vertical bar) goes where the selection will start, and on
right part of a char, it goes on the right side of the char
(instead of the left), then we miss the selection as with
libvte, yet we know we will miss it :) in all case it is
annoying, and I am amazed that the good old Xterm is the only
one to perform normally :) I needed terminator for the mutiple
term and broadcast feature, but I will get back to xterm as
much as I can. <br>
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<div>So back to square one where would be the best hack
candidate to solve firefox et al along with libvte to get the
selection right ?</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Phi<br>
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