On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:43:58PM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: > cut-and-paste no. copy-and-paste yes. is that not good enough?
The main problem is that there are are 3 different copy-and-paste operations under X Windows. There is the PRIMARY (copies by highlighting text and pastes by clicking the middle mouse button), the SECONDARY, and the CLIPBOARD (copies by pressing Ctrl-C and pastes by pressing Ctrl-V). Most modern applications (like firefox, openoffice, etc.) can use both the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD. The problem is that xterm can only use the PRIMARY. So, if you've copied something to the CLIPBOARD in firefox, then you won't be able to paste it in xterm. I solve this problem by using xsel http://openports.se/x11/xsel Using my window manager, I've bound Mod4-C (Mod4 is the Windows keys on most computers) to the command xsel | xsel -b and I've bound Mod4-V to the command xsel -b | xsel The effect is that Mod4-C copies the PRIMARY to the CLIPBOARD, and Mod4-V copies the CLIPBOARD to the PRIMARY. Therefore, I can paste from firefox to xterm by pressing Mod4-V, then clicking the middle mouse button.
