Hello Michael,

Am 12.02.2013 14:52, schrieb Michael Thayer:
...
> A couple of things you should know about the clipboard.  One is that on 
> Linux systems (we use the same code for guest and host) we only support 
> the clipboard, not the selection, so from a (GNOME) terminal you need to 
> select text and then do Shift+Ctrl+C to copy it to the clipboard.  Not 
> even sure if a traditional XTerm supports the clipboard.

Yes, it does. But not out of the box. The man page for xterm explains
the options.

In short there is a configurable option selectToClipboard, which makes
selects to go into the clipboard *instead of* the primary selection. Not
selecting to the primary selection can have disadvantages in the co-work
of Linux applications.

A better option is to select into both, the clipboard and the primary
selection. The man page does also have a suggestion for it. I am using:

XTerm*VT100.Translations:  #override \
    ...
    <Btn1Up>:              select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0)

Regards
Ingo

...

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