XWin.exe causes Windows apps. to freeze

Ryan Johnson ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca
Mon Nov 21 23:46:00 GMT 2011


On 21/11/2011 4:25 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>
>> Eh? Mouse copy/paste in mintty is identical to xterm AFAIK... select = copy,
>> middle button = paste. If you're in a mouse-using terminal app you have to
>> hold down [shift] but that's the same in xterm, I think.
> Not on mine it isn't:
>
> * double-click on word  hightlights, but does not copy
> * middle button paste does work
>
> In my xterms, I just have to double-click LMB to copy, then MMB pastes.
That's very strange... I can't tell you how many ad-hoc excel graphs 
I've populated with numbers grabbed by double-click from experiment 
output. Triple-clicking to get the whole line also comes in handy at 
times. I just tested again in case it changed since yesterday, and it 
still works for me.

Ryan


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