[Novalug] Remaining problems Re: Setting up pine/alpine to work from home computer

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:


> The reamining problems I have are in order of inconvenience
>
> (1) I seem to have lost the ability to copy from the terminal if alpine is 
> running. This is true both of terminator and gnome-terminal. I am running 
> gnome desktop under Ubuntu.

 	Try holding the shift down, starting before you grab the 
mouse. Then again if you want to paste back into Pine/Alpine, 
using the wheel.

 	There seem to be two clipboards, one using the wheel and 
one using the Paste function. You can use both, if you remember 
what's in which -- at least in Fedora.

> Paste still works if the copied text is copied from somewhere 
> other than the terminal that is running alpine. This is a major 
> inconvenience for me.
>
> I have tried to google the problem for several days and have 
> either not hit on the correct key words or no one else is 
> bothered by this problem.

 	It was a royal PITA for me till I found out about the 
shift key. (You do have M > S > C set to enable mouse in xterm, 
don't you??)

> (2) I have to enter my password multiple (min 3, sometimes as 
> many as 6) times to log into the remote server. This is minor 
> compared to (1).

 	I *think* that's a matter of how the server is 
configured; there has been some discussion on one of the places I 
mentioned. Also, I remember, it makes a difference whether 
Pine/Alpine is configured with or without a passfile; the Fedora 
version is with; dunno 'bout Ubuntu.

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