03:14 <creese> For example, I would like to remap C-n to C-<left>, C-e to C-<down>, etc. I don't want to apply this everywhere. Just when I'm in a terminal. In alacritty, this can be accomplished by a line like `- { key: N, mods: Control, chars: "\x1bOD" }`. Does foot have an equivalent?

04:25 <dnkl> creese: not at the moment. See https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/325

05:53 <creese> Thanks, I'll comment in the issue. I think there is a valid use case for remapping keys just in a terminal.

05:55 <creese> Is it possible to apply xkb mappings only to windows of a certain class?

06:00 <creese> I've only ever used it globally.

06:00 <dnkl> creese: there's no generic (compositor agnostic) way that I'm aware of. _might_ be possible in e.g. Sway?

06:05 <dnkl> creese: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/4504 (assuming you're on Sway 🙂)

06:12 <creese> I'm currently running Gnome. I've used Sway before.

08:19 <mcol> Is there a setting to automatically copy the selection to the clipboard?

08:39 <dnkl> mcol: it's already copied automatically to the primary selection (i.e the "mouse" clipboard). But you can set "selection-target" to either copy to the regular clipboard instead, or to both the primary selection and the clipboard

08:40 <mcol> dnkl: by "automatic" I mean that when the selection is made it is copied to the selection-target without a keybinding. Currently I have to hit the configured keys to do this. Do you mean that as well?

08:40 <mcol> I'm on 1.7.2, perhaps this is old

08:40 <dnkl> mcol: that's what I mean :)

08:40 <dnkl> Let me check

08:41 <mcol> ok awesome

08:41 <mcol> i just noticed for the first time from the message you sent at 08:05 that foot supports emojis!

08:41 <dnkl> mcol: 1.7.2 has the selection-target option. And automatic copying to the primary selection has always existed

08:43 <mcol> interesting, my foot.ini doesn't have selection-target

08:43 <dnkl> mcol: yup 🙂. But not the more complex variants that involve sequences of codepoints (👩‍🔬, for example)

08:44 <dnkl> mcol: maybe it's based on an older version?

08:44 <dnkl> It was added in 1.6.4

08:44 <dnkl> Just add it yourself. Check "man foot.ini" for valid values

08:45 <mcol> ah yep, default is primary so i probably read it when looking through the man pages and ignored it because that is what i want

08:45 <mcol> the clipboard-copy keybinding works perfectly

08:46 <mcol> however the copy is not done automatically

08:46 <mcol> FWIW I made the compositor I'm using so it's possible that it's not set up correctly

08:47 <dnkl> mcol: clipboard-copy copies to the "clipboard", not the "primary" selection. They are two distinct clipboards.

08:47 <mcol> I thought so too, however it copies to my primary :p

08:48 <dnkl> mcol: you usually paste from the primary selection with the middle mouse button

08:48 <mcol> or maybe not

08:48 <mcol> right

08:48 <mcol> so this whole time I have been using clipboard and not primary

08:48 <mcol> and it's working as expected

08:48 <mcol> that would make sense

08:50 <dnkl> mcol: fwiw foot binds shift+insert to the "primary paste" action, by default. That is, foot allows you to paste from the primary selection with either the middle mouse button, or shift+insert

08:50 <dnkl> mcol: all applications usually support the middle mouse button, while some are like foot and also support shift+insert

08:52 <mcol> neither of those do anything, so maybe the compositor's primary selection isn't working

08:52 <mcol> a lead! Thanks, I should be able to debug this further :)

08:53 <dnkl> mcol: start foot from another terminal. It'll log a warning message if primary selection isn't supported by the compositor

08:53 <mcol> It does not log that -- and it wasn't too long ago I added the primary selection, and remember this log disappearing

08:53 <mcol> i'm just using wlroots' primary selection

08:54 <mcol> specifically wlr_primary_selection_v1_device_manager

08:55 <dnkl> mcol: aha, didn't realize you were running your own compositor... 🙂

08:55 <dnkl> But yeah, that's the one

08:56 <dnkl> mcol: sounds like it might be time for some WAYLAND_DEBUG=1 debugging...

08:57 <mcol> lol yep, trying to be cautious about these kinds of things because any problem could be my own doing