xclipboard
Hi, I have XWin 6.8.2.0-4 and am running on Windows2000 professional, starting it like this: XWin -multiplemonitors -clipboard -rootless -screen ... And, I am runing fvwm2 as the window manager, and a couple of xterms in it. So, I left mouse click to highlight some text, and hit CNTL-C to copy it and move to another window and hit CNTL-V to paste it. Nothing happens. I also tried pasting into the native windows application Notepad and still nothing. I looked into the xclipboard man page, but there was nothing there. I checked the web. Someone suggested I should use -emulate3buttons. I would like to be able to copy from one xterm to another. Every window has the reverse video highlight capability. However, I can't get beyond that. Please help. Thanks, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: xclipboard
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, David wrote: Hi, I have XWin 6.8.2.0-4 and am running on Windows2000 professional, starting it like this: XWin -multiplemonitors -clipboard -rootless -screen ... And, I am runing fvwm2 as the window manager, and a couple of xterms in it. So, I left mouse click to highlight some text, and hit CNTL-C to copy it and move to another window and hit CNTL-V to paste it. That won't work because control characters are valid input to xterm. Nothing happens. I also tried pasting into the native windows application Notepad and still nothing. By default xterm uses the primary selection. It is possible that cygwin can supply the X clipboard selection to notepad (not necessarily the same as the Windows clipboard). xterm can be told to use the clipboard selection (recent xterm versions- cygwin probably is not recent) can do this via a menu selection. See selectToClipboard in http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html I looked into the xclipboard man page, but there was nothing there. I checked the web. Someone suggested I should use -emulate3buttons. That's because xterm's default bindings use the middle button for pasting. I would like to be able to copy from one xterm to another. For that, you only need to use the mouse bindings that xterm provides by default (see manpage): left=start selection, middle=paste, right=extend selection. Every window has the reverse video highlight capability. However, I can't get beyond that. Please help. Thanks, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: xclipboard
David wrote: Hi, I have XWin 6.8.2.0-4 and am running on Windows2000 professional, starting it like this: XWin -multiplemonitors -clipboard -rootless -screen ... And, I am runing fvwm2 as the window manager, and a couple of xterms in it. So, I left mouse click to highlight some text, and hit CNTL-C to copy it and move to another window and hit CNTL-V to paste it. Nothing happens. I also tried pasting into the native windows application Notepad and still nothing. I looked into the xclipboard man page, but there was nothing there. I checked the web. Someone suggested I should use -emulate3buttons. I would like to be able to copy from one xterm to another. Every window has the reverse video highlight capability. However, I can't get beyond that. Please help. Thanks, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ if your mouse has a clickable scrollwheel, or any other button that can be identified as 'button3', click it. i.e. 1. highlight text to copy ( ctrl-C is NOT require ) 2. make 'paste into' window/Xapp the active window ( click on the window/Xapp you want to past into) 3) click the scroll button, or if emulate3buttons is on , click left/right buttons in quick sequence ( or click whatever other button your mouse has defined as button3 3a) to paste into a native WINDOWS app, select the app, ctrl-v, or right click/select paste -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
