Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:07:40 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Chuck Bacon" <crtb@cape.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gv&(kernel|X) Message-ID: <20100211230740.3d694fbe.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <34388.209.213.65.25.1265922809.squirrel@webmail.cape.com> References: <34388.209.213.65.25.1265922809.squirrel@webmail.cape.com>
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:13:29 -0500 (EST), "Chuck Bacon" <crtb@cape.com> wrote: > kernel or perhaps X, is next: From an xterm, I typed ctrl-alt-F1 to look > at something. Upon return to the xterm by alt-F9, I discover "0~" as if > I'd typed it in, which wasn't there before. "cat|od -c" reveals it's (to > quote): > "033 [ 2 0 ~ \n" . > I don't remember what that does, but I can't find anything changed in X. Sounds familiar... VERY familiar, and started (for me) with the transition from 5/XFree86 to 7/X.org. I think what you see in the xterm is the content of your edit buffer. Try it: Select some arbitrary text with the left mouse button (so as if you wanted to put it somewhere with the middle mouse button), but then switch to text mode. Upon your return to X, the text you selected is output. The fun starts when you select text with more than one line (so it contains one or more \n) and then return to X with the focus of an xterm. Just imagine you selected "rm -rf ~\ndf -h\n" somewhere - oh you will LOVE your backups! :-) Sadly, I can't tell you how to get rid of this strange behaviour, but I can assure you that it hasn't always been present. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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