> Gesendet: Montag, 08. August 2016 um 21:51 Uhr > Von: "Edgar Pettijohn" <ed...@pettijohn-web.com> > An: "Mihai Popescu" <mih...@gmail.com> > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Betreff: Re: Copy-Paste not possible from a xterm > > I can't remember which of these I use because it's a muscle memory deal, but > it's either ctrl + insert or shift + insert after highlighting the text of > course. I think it requires some magic words in a resource file somewhere to > use the clipboard. >
Hi Edgar, thanks again for taking the time to reply. Actually 'shift + insert' does copy the content of the clipboard. But this content is not the marked-up line from xterm! Example: Using a graphical editor like e.g. NEdit I can mark a line within and copy this line to the clipboard via 'ctrl + c'. It is this content that could be inserted via 'shift + insert'. BUT my issue is different: Until recently I could copy and paste from a xterm by simply marking a line (or several lines) and by pressing left and right mouse buttons simultaneously this line / these lines were copied at the position of the cursor. It is this behaviour that seemed to no longer working on my system. Dimitrij Czarkoff posted the relevant section of man mouse(4): Option "Emulate3Buttons" Re-reading this several times lead to the solution. The system is a laptop with two buttons below the touchpad but I have an external mouse attached with a physical third button - simply pressing this button did the trick. Sigh... no idea why the emulation of the third button does no longer work. Will test this with the external mouse detached - but not tonight. Thank you all!!! Best, STEFAN
