On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:43:01 +0000 Matthew Szudzik
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:59:49AM -0500, Marcus Watts wrote:
> > Recent versions of xterm (237, 242) have some new options you might
> > find helpful.
> >
> > control-center-button brings up "VT options", then
> > just past "Allow 80/132 Column Switching", there are 2 new options:
> > "Keep Selection", and "Select to Clipboard". I think the 2nd of
> > these might cause xterm to behave as you wish.
>
> Excellent! I was unaware of that option. Adding the line
>
> XTerm*selectToClipboard: true
>
> to the
>
> ~/.Xdefaults
>
> file allows highlighting (and middle-clicking) to copy (and paste)
> with the CLIPBOARD, rather than the PRIMARY.
>
Also, Martynas Venckus just added another nifty piece to ports:
ports/x11/autocutsel/
Log message:
import autocutsel-0.9.0... which fixes pasting
some new gtk/qt based apps (such as firefox) use
PRIMARY/CLIPBOARD buffers, while the older ones use cutbuffer.
this little utility keeps clipboard and cutbuffer in sync,
making it able to select/paste data from xterm<->firefox!11
ok sthen@
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J.C. Roberts
