On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 00:10:33 -0800, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> >> there are also more formal references like: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection >> https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/utilities/using-cut-buffers.html >> https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window-information/selection.html >> >> Sorry I pointed you in the wrong direction to start with. >> > >Hi Andrew, > >https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/utilities/using-cut-buffers.html >is the ctrl-c/v/x clipboard. > >But, looking at > https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/window-information/selection.html > >He talks a lot about changing the ownership. Is the the mouse over and >middle click clipboard (primary)? I may still have the wrong clipboard. >Am I missing something? Yes, mouse over and middle click is primary. xclip will let you transfer text between primary and clipboard. For instance, xclip -o -sel clip |xclip -sel p will put the clipboard selection into the primary, from which you can paste it with the middle button, and xclip -o -sel p |xclip -sel clip will put the selection that you have highlighted with the mouse into the clipboard, from which you can ctrl-v it into an openoffice document or whatever. Obviously, you want to give these incantations names or bind them to keys if you intend to use them a lot. Hope that's useful. Stephen Isard
