On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 09:42:54AM +0700, Michael Acklin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
>       I know this has been asked before, but just a quick browse of the
> archives, I wasn't able to find. Wished there was a grep button on the
> mailing list archves.:)
> 
>       Ok, here's my question. What are the keys or commands to use cut and 
> paste
> in Xwindows? I know in WinBlows 95 it was CTL-X for cut, CTL-C for copy and
> CTL-V for paste. In normal terminal within Linux I know I can highlight the
> area with a mouse and it will put it in the buffer and hit the right mouse
> button to paste it. I tried this in xterm and rxvt but didn't work for me.
> I have a 2 button mouse configured to Emulate the Third Button with both
> buttons pushed, but couldn't get anything work with any of the button combos.
> 
>       I had just installed offix-clipboard and read the man on it and all it
> talks about is the other application's ways of cutting and pasting, but not
> how to do it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Copy: same as console (left button)
Paste: 3rd button

> 
>       Also, has anyone else been able to get Xirc to run in Xwindows? I 
> haven't
> been able to run it at all. I keep getting an error message about the
> display or something. I know that isn't much help, but my machine is at
> home. I installed the Deb package and there were no problems or conflicts
> that showed up. All the dependencies were filled as far as I could tell.

worked fine here, the exact error message would be usefull..

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