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Re: xclipboard
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:06:38 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: xclipboard
- References: <200604061550.k36FoVg7008648@sdf.lonestar.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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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