double left click on text (xterm and elsewhere) questions

[Loïc Grenié]

On Thu 17 Dec 2020 at 22:35, Robert Heller wrote:

> OK, I have moved from using CentOS (4,5,6) to Ubuntu 18.04 and have things
> *mostly* behaving the way I want.  There is still one *anoying*
> difference:
> the way text selection works.  When I was running CentOS, double left
> click on
> any text area (xterms, Firefox, etc.) it highlighted/selected a "word",
> defined as a solid block of alphanums, with a *few* other charactors
> (underscore, and maybe a few others).  Under Ubuntu it seems to have a
> broader
> definiation of "word".  Where is this defined?  What is different with
> Ubuntu
> from CentOS?
>

     You should look at CharClass default, it may work to change it in your
  .Xdefault file or in some system-wide configuration file as
  /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm (you can find an example for charClass in
  the file).

          Loïc
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