The attached file might help for a less painful clipboard experience. ;-) Save it in your $HOME.
Xterm-s that you start from now will paste the system (GTK?) clipboard contents when you press SHIFT-INS (or middle click). So, to paste from Firefox into a terminal, just select in FF, hit CTRL-C then middle click or SHIFT-INS in the xterm. This takes a bit of learning if you're used to the old behavior (which didn't require CTRL-C) but I found it more reliable. To paste from XTerm into another application, simply select the text in the terminal using your mouse. In the other app do CTRL-V (or paste from the edit menu etc). Emacs has its own clipboard (accessible with M-w (copy), C-w (cut), C-y (paste)). I wouldn't sacrifice it because it's quite powerful, so I added two more keybindings that deal with the system's clipboard: (define-key global-map [(meta W)] 'clipboard-kill-ring-save) (define-key global-map [(control Y)] 'clipboard-yank) (note the capital W and Y). Now when I press M-S-w it copies the selection to the system clipboard (so you get it with CTRL-V in other apps). C-S-y will paste system clipboard into Emacs. Hope this helps. -Mihai On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Rodrigo Amestica <[email protected]>wrote: > I desktop is gnome. I always have problems with the clipboard. When I > select in emacs or in xterm I cannot copy the selection into thunderbird or > similar applications. > > Today I noticed that there is a script names selection-push.jl and I > thought that perhaps this would be the consolidated solution for the > clipboard. But the script does not even load properly because > sawfish.wm.util.selection does not seem to be there any more (sawfish > 1.3.4). > > Is there any advise on which direction I should look for a proper clipboard > management? Having a working clipboard is so essential for a painless day > that I cannot understand why is that it does not work for me just out of the > box. > > thanks, > Rodrigo > -- Mihai Bazon, http://mihai.bazon.net/blog
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