Thursday, April 25, 2013

PuttY style word selection in xfce4-terminal

For all those who have made themselves comfortable with PuttY software, word selection by double clicking in xfce4-terminal would be difficult to get used to.

So they can follow these steps to use PuttY style word selection.

  1. Right click anywhere inside xfce4-terminal and select Preferences

  2. Select the Advanced tab

  3. Paste the following text in the box below "Double Click" section
-A-Za-z0-9./?_~

That's it. Enjoy PuttY style word selection on xfce4-terminal :)

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