Package: xterm Version: 261-1 Severity: wishlist This is a wishlist bug. I was not able to locate upstream bug tracker so I'm filing it here instead, please forward if appropriate.
I wish that xterm could be configured to support freedesktop.org style clipboard behavior. For example I'd like to be able to do the following: 1) select text using mouse 2) hit ctrl-shift-c 3) hit ctrl-shift-v with the following expected results: 2) selected text is added to clipboard (not only primary selection) 3) contents of clipboard is sent as input to the application running under xterm I can implement step 3 with XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override\n\ Shift Ctrl <KeyPress> v:insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) in ~/.Xresources. However, step 2 seems to be tricky to implement currently. I tried XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override\n\ Shift Ctrl <KeyPress> v:insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)\n\ Shift<Btn1Down>:select-start()\n\ Shift<Btn1Motion>:select-extend()\n\ Shift<Btn1Up>:select-end(CLIPBOARD)\n which is almost what I want. The problem is that it overwrites the contents of clipboard too early, it should wait for me to press ctrl-shift-c. Since it does not do this it is very easy to accidentally destroy contents of clipboard by selecting some text. Especially on a touchscreen it is very easy to accidentally select text. Would it be possible to add some sort of "copy contents of primary selection to clipboard" command to xterm so that I could bind it to ctrl-shift-c? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libutempter0 1.1.5-3 A privileged helper for utmp/wtmp ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xbitmaps 1.1.0-1 Base X bitmaps Versions of packages xterm recommends: ii x11-utils 7.5+4 X11 utilities ii xutils 1:7.5+6 X Window System utility programs m Versions of packages xterm suggests: pn xfonts-cyrillic <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8439vpkq07....@sauna.l.org