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Re: xclipboard


On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, David wrote:

Hi,

I have XWin 6.8.2.0-4 and am running on Windows2000
professional, starting it like this:

XWin -multiplemonitors -clipboard -rootless -screen ...

And, I am runing fvwm2 as the window manager, and a couple
of xterms in it.

So, I left mouse click to highlight some text, and
hit CNTL-C to copy it and move to another window
and hit CNTL-V to paste it.

That won't work because control characters are valid input to xterm.


Nothing happens. I also tried pasting into the native
windows application "Notepad" and still nothing.

By default xterm uses the primary selection. It is possible that cygwin can supply the X clipboard selection to notepad (not necessarily the same as the Windows clipboard).

xterm can be told to use the clipboard selection (recent xterm versions- cygwin probably is not recent) can do this via a menu selection. See
selectToClipboard in


http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html

I looked into the xclipboard man page, but there was
nothing there. I checked the web. Someone suggested I
should use -emulate3buttons.

That's because xterm's default bindings use the middle button for pasting.


I would like to be able to copy from one xterm to another.

For that, you only need to use the mouse bindings that xterm provides by
default (see manpage): left=start selection, middle=paste, right=extend selection.


Every window has the reverse video highlight capability.
However, I can't get beyond that.

Please help.

Thanks,

David





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