xclipboard

[Thomas Dickey]

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
>
>
>
>
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