On 28.09.2005 18:04 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
With the clipboard enabled, do you know how to highlight, copy & paste
Nice subject line - I'm not really sure why I started this "Basic Question no." nonsense - it was bound to lead to confusion, sorry!
between win/xp and cygwin? I think that is his intent. Microsoft(which you know): copy is by selecting then ctrl-c or menu-copy. paste is by ctrl-v or menu-paste. Motif & cygwin: Selecting text would spontaneously (some people might prefer the term, automatically) copy into clipboard. Paste is by middle button click.
Thanks for explain this. It's embarrassing, but I wasn't aware of the different behaviour :-[
e.g. copying from MS to Cyg: copy text from MS win, move cursor to cyg window and press/release middle button. Conversely from cyg to MS: select text at cyg win, move mouse to MS win and ctrl-v. Voila! However, if you don't have a middle mouse button, or you had mapped that button to do something else, you could use -emulate3buttons option which would require you to press both mouse buttons together to emulate the middle button.
I do have the scroll wheel button assigned to double click, and I would like to keep that setting, which raises the question of where exactly I would have to specify -emulate3buttons (is it simply another command line option after startx?) and what you mean by "both mouse buttons" - do you mean left and right?
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