Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-06-12 21:16:51 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > Note that this is very temporary storage. It will not put the text in > the clipboard, nor will a clipboard stack program like clipman see it. This can be changed with selectToClipboard: selectToClipboard (class SelectToClipboard) Tell

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread fxkl47BF
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: >> For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad of >> laptop. As it worked years ago. > > Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the hacks > that people

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/06/2024 12:42, Charlie wrote: Didn't think the touchpad had a middle button. Don't know why? Middle click can be configured for touchpads as 2 or 3 fingers tap or as simultaneous press on both hardware buttons (if they exist), see the libinput(4) man page and https://wayland.freedeskto

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Aleix Piulachs
Excúseme i don’t know the xterm behavior.. El El jue, 13 jun 2024 a las 13:28, Greg Wooledge escribió: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad of > > laptop. As it worked years ago. > > Pressing left+right

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ
On Thursday, 13 June 2024 07:27:47 -04 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad > > of laptop. As it worked years ago. > > Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad of > laptop. As it worked years ago. Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the hacks that people used to mimic the middle button in some X11 setups.

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Just a note Some terminal emulators don't automatically copy highlighted text. You need to copy it manually before moving to the target file It's so long since I've tolerated such terminals I'm not sure but try ctrl-alt-c Else, right click with the mouse pointer outside of highlighted text a

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-12 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:56:34 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm > > by Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from > > xterm > > xterm is a terminal emulator

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:16:00 +1000 Charlie wrote: > I[s] there is a > way to do it at all? Yes. Use Mouse-1 (typically the left-hand mouse button) to swipe the text you want to copy from the xterm. Go to the recipient program, and use Mouse-2 (typically the middle button on the mouse) to paste.

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-12 Thread Aleix Piulachs
I believe you can to change the options of xterm editor and set up others.. El El jue, 13 jun 2024 a las 4:56, Greg Wooledge escribió: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm by > > Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm by > Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from xterm xterm is a terminal emulator. Pressing Ctrl-C in a terminal emulator simply passes a byte (0x03) to

Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-12 Thread Charlie
Using Debian bookworm updated and upgraded. Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm by Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from xterm Unable to paste from xterm into a text editor using Ctrl + V or Shift + Ctrl + V After a few years, am f