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Re: Cut&Paste in xterm
- From: Cary Jamison <cary_jamison at symantec dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:44:51 -0600
- Subject: Re: Cut&Paste in xterm
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
"Jason Dufair" <jase@dufair.org> wrote in message
news:<j70ise7b3sk.fsf@dufair.org>...
> I think I've finally gotten to the bottom of the problem. I have
> discovered that highlighting in Rxvt does copy on to the Windows
> clipboard after all, but that pasting by clicking the middle mouse
> button does not work. It turns out that I have my middle button set to
> double-click. When I set my middle mouse button to "AutoScroll
> (default)", it pastes as expected.
>
> Is there any way for Cygwin/X to paste with the middle button in X
windows,
> regardless of what the driver setting is for the middle button? Would
> this even be desirable?
You are essentially making your 3 button mouse a 2 button mouse then. In
this scenario you click both buttons at once to get the affect of the
third button. You may need to set -emulate3buttons.
> >> "Ariel Burbaickij" <Ariel.Burbaickij@gmx.net> writes:
> >>
> >> > Dear all,
> >> > happy my question about possibilty to start windows applications
> >> > direclty has provoked rather vivid discusion. Now for a change
> >> > extremly dumb question: Cut & paste inside xterm of cygwin X-server
> >> > does not work neither traditional highlight and point to where you
want
> >> > to have it method, not ctrl-c/ctrl-v method. So, what is the trick?
> >> >
> >> > With Best Regards
> >> > Ariel Burbaickij
> >> >
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My guess on the OP's problem - sounds like a misunderstanding of how
copy/paste works, since ctrl-c/ctrl-v is not used for copy/paste in xterm.
Have you tried pasting with the middle mouse button? If that solves your
problem, realize that the various X applications may have their own
methods and you need to discover how to do it properly for each.
Cary