Re: Mouse copy from console to X?
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: thing is, that still doesn't give the ability to cp from what was already on the console before X started. which was what i gathered the original poster was asking about. Somewhat. For reading news, I use slrn in a console session. I don't want to keep X running all the time. slrn can call lynx to display URLs, but of course it's text-only. So I really just want to copy URLs from a console screen, switch to or start an X session, and paste them into Mozilla. I'll look into screen. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mouse copy from console to X?
thing is, that still doesn't give the ability to cp from what was already on the console before X started. which was what i gathered the original poster was asking about. -Adam (07.14.2002 @ 1039 PST): Dan Nelson said, in 1.1K: In the last episode (Jul 13), Adam Weinberger said: ctrl-C is a windows copy command. in the unix world, it's often an abort stroke. Which is why I always use CRTL-INS to copy, and SHIFT-INS to paste. Those are the keys MS started using in edit.com, and they still work in all Windows apps. I don't know why Windows later decided to steal the break and literal control keys. the console clipboard and the X clipboard are indeed 2 different things. when i start X, i redirect stderr to stdout, and tee it to a logfile. your best bet is to dump the console contents you want into a file, and then read that file in X. I do it by starting a screen session in the console and starting up a text editor. I then open an xterm and attach to the same screen session (screen -x sessionnumber), and use that to transfer text back and forth. It might be a good Juniour Hacker Project to add clipboard reading/writing ioctls to syscons, and write a small daemon to monitor it and the X clipboard and shuffle data from one to the other. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] end of Re: Mouse copy from console to X? from Dan Nelson -- Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw. -Lilo Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crackula.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mouse copy from console to X?
7/13/2002 4:17:12 PM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this is easy, but I haven't found any references (pointers appreciated). I'd like to be able to copy from a console screen with the mouse and then do a paste in X. Or the other way around. As it is, it seems like these are two separate systems; is there a way to use a combined clipboard? -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Have you tried ctrl-C? Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Mouse copy from console to X?
ctrl-C is a windows copy command. in the unix world, it's often an abort stroke. the console clipboard and the X clipboard are indeed 2 different things. when i start X, i redirect stderr to stdout, and tee it to a logfile. your best bet is to dump the console contents you want into a file, and then read that file in X. -Adam (07.13.2002 @ 1329 PST): Jud said, in 0.6K: Have you tried ctrl-C? Jud 7/13/2002 4:17:12 PM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this is easy, but I haven't found any references (pointers appreciated). I'd like to be able to copy from a console screen with the mouse and then do a paste in X. Or the other way around. As it is, it seems like these are two separate systems; is there a way to use a combined clipboard? -- Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw. -Lilo Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crackula.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
