[mosh-devel] Port selection and mouse usage

[Florian Bruhin]

Hi David,

* David Anderson <david at wordshell.net> [2012-07-12 12:05:18 +0300]:
> 1) Presently you can either let Mosh choose a port out of the default 
> range 60000-61000, or you can specify precisely one port to use. If you 
> do the latter, and if the port is already in use (e.g. your connecting 
> machine crashed, but the server end stays alive because it doesn't know 
> where you went), then you have to mentally keep tabs of what might be 
> alive on the server. And it means if you use a terminal program (e.g. 
> konsole in KDE, gnome-terminal, etc.) then you can't easily store a 
> command to use (unless you want to script something that tries the ports 
> in sequence).
> So, the problem is that you can have a range of ports by default, or 
> specify just one. mosh should allow you to specify a *range* of ports on 
> the client side.

You probably could open[0] a feature request in the tracker[1] for that.

> 2) I use konsole; not sure if this is the case for all mouse usage, but 
> basically mouse usage does not work. I use w3m to browse the web over a 
> terminal; but the mouse behaves as if it were not there; I can't click 
> on links or navigate around with it (whereas it does work over a 
> standard ssh session within konsole).

This is not that trivial, and there is already a feature request open
for that in the tracker: [2]

Flo

[0] https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/new
[1] https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/
[2] https://github.com/keithw/mosh/issues/101

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