byobu

Including clock kills easy copy and paste

Asked by Steve Romanow

Hi Guys,

Really enjoying this product. I have installed it on every machine I use. Even one aix hack.

Question, with the clock updating in the statusbar every second, when I try to use the standard xterm Select to Copy, it clears at the next clock tick. Think it would be sufficient to just exclude the seconds so it updates less frequently. Maybe a different screenrc setting?

Thanks for your work.

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Steve Romanow (slestak989) said : 		#1

I said xterm, but in actuality, I am usually in gtk2 or win32 putty. Same difference though. The problem is on the host, not the client.

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) said : 		#2

Thanks for the compliments.

Hmm, I cannot reproduce this using gnome-terminal and the latest byobu release.

However, I should note that removing just the seconds won't solve that, however.

You would need to toggle off all of the status options that update
every ~2 seconds, which includes:
 * reboot-required
 * cpu-freq
 * load-average
 * mem-used
 * processes
 * network-up
 * network-down
 * wifi-quality
 * disk-used
 * time

Perhaps try turning all of those off, and see if that buys you more
time for your copy-and-paste.

Also, have a look at screen's copy and paste mechanism. Hit F7 to
enter scrollback mode (uses VI bindings). Use spacebar to set mark1
and mark2, and then y to copy. For more information, see the copy
command in the manpage:
 * http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/en/man1/screen.1.html

:-Dustin

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Steve Romanow (slestak989) said : 		#3

Ok, duh. I missed the yank portion of screen copy paste.

This works well.