Re: [DNG] terminal paste failure
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 09:10:50AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 11:41:18PM +0200, richard lucassen via Dng wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:02:05 -0400 > > Haines Brown wrote: > > > > > This morning I find that the wiress mouse can cut and paste between > > > terminals or nano sessions even with the wired mouse disconnected. > > > Whether the problem is permanently in the past remains to be seen. > > > > Try "reset" in the terminal, sometimes this helps. See "man reset" for > > more info. > > Richard, thanks for the suggestion. I had never encountered tset or > reset. Don't need it now because copy/paste continues to work as it > should. Now we have a workaround if it should happen again. But the workaround doesn't work if you're not running in the shell. And there remains the question of why does this happen in the first place. -- hendrik > > Haines Brown > ___ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] terminal paste failure
On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 11:41:18PM +0200, richard lucassen via Dng wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:02:05 -0400 > Haines Brown wrote: > > > This morning I find that the wiress mouse can cut and paste between > > terminals or nano sessions even with the wired mouse disconnected. > > Whether the problem is permanently in the past remains to be seen. > > Try "reset" in the terminal, sometimes this helps. See "man reset" for > more info. Richard, thanks for the suggestion. I had never encountered tset or reset. Don't need it now because copy/paste continues to work as it should. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] terminal paste failure
On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:02:05 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > This morning I find that the wiress mouse can cut and paste between > terminals or nano sessions even with the wired mouse disconnected. > Whether the problem is permanently in the past remains to be seen. Try "reset" in the terminal, sometimes this helps. See "man reset" for more info. -- richard lucassen https://contact.xaq.nl/ ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] terminal paste failure
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 05:36:05PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Last night for some reason I can no lonter paste text selected in > nano to another nano document with the middle mouse button. It seems > to have failed in the course of the night. > ... > However, an old wired USB mouse does not suffer from the problem. > > Haines Brown This morning I find that the wiress mouse can cut and paste between terminals or nano sessions even with the wired mouse disconnected. Whether the problem is permanently in the past remains to be seen. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] terminal paste failure
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 05:36:05PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Last night for some reason I can no lonter paste text selected in > nano to another nano document with the middle mouse button. It seems > to have failed in the course of the night. > > I've been running Beowulf ever since the beta. I don't have a desktop > environment but rely on fluxbox for window management. > > The problem affects both root and user. It does not affect selecting > and pasting between GUI applications such aa emacs. It affects both > eterm and mlterm. eTerm puzzles me. I installed xterm, but it runs > eterm. > > Clearing the caches did not help: > > $ xsel -cp && xsel -cs && xsel -cb > > > Selected text shows up in xcliboard, and so the problem seems to be > with pasting. > > I tried Ctl-Shift-c and Ctl-Shift-v without luck. > > I tried Ctl-w to cut a work, but Ctl-y did not paste it. > > I repladed the (wireless) mouse and used it in a different port. > Reconfiguring xserver-xorg and rebooting did not help. > > However, an old wired USB mouse does not suffer from the problem. I had similar problems a few days ago. Suddenly some cut-and-pastes didn't work. In particular, I was unable to cut from emacs or a terminal (I forget which teminal program; it could have been qterminal, xterm, or uxterm) and paste in the URL bar of firefox. It didn't matter whether I used the outline in emacs and paste with middle-click or the edit manu in emacs and the paste menu item on firefox. I wondered whether this might be because of the two somewhat incompatible mechanisms in X versus in a desktop. Sometimes this means one kind of cut doesn't match another kind of paste and I just try again with a different combination. But this time switching kinds didn't hwlp. And some pieces of software try hard to be compatible with both. It can help, but what to do if the two paste buffers have different information? Or maybe I'm off-track here and have some misunderstanding about how the cu/paste mechanisms ineract. There does seem to be some conflict between X and desktops, though. I was baffled. I wrote a note about it to this mailing list and got no reply. I couldn't remember doing any upgrades or other system changes recently. But after I logged out and logged in again (I forget whether I also turned the machine off and on again; I think I didn't), everything was OK. I too use a wireless mouse. I still do not understand what happened. -- hendrik > > > Haines Brown > ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] terminal paste failure
Last night for some reason I can no lonter paste text selected in nano to another nano document with the middle mouse button. It seems to have failed in the course of the night. I've been running Beowulf ever since the beta. I don't have a desktop environment but rely on fluxbox for window management. The problem affects both root and user. It does not affect selecting and pasting between GUI applications such aa emacs. It affects both eterm and mlterm. eTerm puzzles me. I installed xterm, but it runs eterm. Clearing the caches did not help: $ xsel -cp && xsel -cs && xsel -cb Selected text shows up in xcliboard, and so the problem seems to be with pasting. I tried Ctl-Shift-c and Ctl-Shift-v without luck. I tried Ctl-w to cut a work, but Ctl-y did not paste it. I repladed the (wireless) mouse and used it in a different port. Reconfiguring xserver-xorg and rebooting did not help. However, an old wired USB mouse does not suffer from the problem. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
