On Sat, 13 May 2023, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
In particular (independently of fvwm ?) I am used to do quick copy-and-paste
of text selecting it with mouse button 1 (MB1) and pasting with mouse button
2 (MB2). Or shift-MB1 and shift-MB2 in my favourite editor (Hessling ...
Editor), due to a peculiarity of the editor.
Now I've got a new HP Probook laptop which has a touchpad without buttons.
I wonder whether there is a solution (either fvwm-specific or X11-generic) to
achieve a decent emulation of the paste function.
I have found a *partially* satisafactory solution. But it does no work in
xterm.
I inserted near the end of my .fvwmrc
PointerKey Control_R WR A Exec exec /usr/bin/xdotool click 2
- this way if I press the right-control key while in the root menu, it
invokes my FvwmIconMan WinLIst emulation.
- If I press the right-control key in the xclipboard, or in a uxrvt or in
a browser, this pastes my last MB1 selection.
- If I press shift-right-control in my THE editor window it also pastes my
last MB1 selection.
- **** But in an xterm nothing happens.
The fvwm manpage suggests to place in .Xdefaults
XTerm*allowSendEvents: true
This seems not to be honoured (as shown by ctl-MB1: allowsends is not
set). However most of my xterms are started with class XTermNew. So I
placed *allowSendEvents: true in ~/XTermNew (and also in ~/XTerm).
This way allowsends appear to be set, but the control-right key does
nothing.
This has nothing to do with xdotool. If in ANOTHER terminal I do
sleep 5; xdotool click 2
and then qjuickly enough move the mouse to an xterm, the MB1 selection
*is* pasted. But of course this is a bit clumsy.
So the problem is an incompatibility between xterm and fvwm syntethic
events (or a syntax problem with PointerKey ?)
Is there a solution ?
