<NolanSyKinsley> If there are any PoL devs here, I really love the work you do but I have one major gripe. When you open a shell for a wine prefix for some reason your shell emulator does not allow copying or pasting, which in my opinion is a MAJOR fault. Many times I have needed to insert a lengthy command or need to copy information gathered from the shell and it is simply impossible, and I see no reason why it should be that way.
<pango> that must be xterm, so it uses traditional X way of copy&paste
<NolanSyKinsley> nope
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<pango> which is select by left (begin) and right (end) click or left drag, and middle button for paste
<NolanSyKinsley> that is a negative ghost rider
<NolanSyKinsley> CTRL+Shift+C/V does not work either
<pango> that's an IBM standard that didn't exist at the time (or was not followed)
<NolanSyKinsley> right clicking does not even bring up any menu
<NolanSyKinsley> at the time? this is 2014
<pango> nope, it's use to end selection
<pango> xterm was developed at the beginning of the '80s
<NolanSyKinsley> I am fairly sure this is not xterm
<pango> just check what's running then
<NolanSyKinsley> alas, if it were, your suggestion of commands would surely work
<NolanSyKinsley> and how would I go about that?
<NolanSyKinsley> http://i.imgur.com/Or1Ptpr.png it says bash2
<pango> yup, the shell running into it can set the window title
<pango> using an ANSI sequence
<pango> but it seems to be xterm alright
<pango> > ps ax|grep '[x]term'
<pango> 28426 pts/11   S+     0:00 xterm -e /home/petchema/.PlayOnLinux//tmp/env_bash2 -T PlayOnLinux
<Crendgrim> It also behaves like you described for me.
<pango> internally it's driven by the $POL_TERM variable
<pango> if you check lib/variables,
<pango> if [ "$DEBIAN_PACKAGE" = "TRUE" ]; then
<pango>         export POL_TERM="x-terminal-emulator"
<pango> else
<pango>         export POL_TERM="xterm"
<pango> fi
<Crendgrim> So one could replace that for any terminal emulator?
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<pango> as long as it accepts the same arguments
<pango> namely -e and -T, at least
<Crendgrim> hm, of course.
<pango> see bash/expert/PolShell
<pango> yes, but just the two possibilities above were troublesome already
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<NolanSyKinsley> =/ so yea, it is xterm that is misbehaving on my distro, the instucted commands for copy/paste do not work at all even when I open xterm by itself
<pango> (xterm and x-terminal-emulator)
<pango> I don't remember the details exactly, but for one -e would take the next argument as the command to run
<Crendgrim> I replaced "xterm" with "konsole" and xterm started. Heh.
<pango> while for the other it was all the arguments after it, up the end of line
<pango> so now the command is encapsulated into a script and the name of the script given to -e, so it doesn't matter
<NolanSyKinsley> yea, x-terminal-emulator is what I am used to using
<pango> still, such subtle differences are troublesome
<NolanSyKinsley> wait...
<Crendgrim> Hm
<pango> so it's hard to support all existing terminal emulators if there's no standard way to communicate with them :/
<NolanSyKinsley> the thing you just said.....
<NolanSyKinsley> <pango> if [ "$DEBIAN_PACKAGE" = "TRUE" ]; then
<NolanSyKinsley> <pango>         export POL_TERM="x-terminal-emulator"
<Crendgrim> Even if I replace $POL_TERM in bash/expert/PolShell with "konsole", it starts xterm.
<NolanSyKinsley> I am on debian so it should use x-terminal-emulator
<pango> aha, there's an xterm hardcoded in lib/playonlinux.lib too :/
<pango> lib/playonlinux.lib:    xterm -e "$POL_USER_ROOT/tmp/env_bash2" -T "$APPLICATION_TITLE"
<pango> which looks awfully lot like the one used
<Crendgrim> hah
<pango> and another
<pango> lib/playonlinux.lib:                            SUDO_COMMAND="xterm -e sudo"
<NolanSyKinsley> is there a place I can submit bug reports to get this properly fixed?
<NolanSyKinsley> this has annoyed me for years....
<pango> there's a bugtracker on playonlinux.com
<NolanSyKinsley> I.... never really go there...
<pango> also the project is hosted on github, so one can submit merge requests
<NolanSyKinsley> egads
<NolanSyKinsley> no