On 10/15/2010 12:59 PM, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> What Alex can do in order to force the highlighted word or text
>> to go into the buffer that can be pasted with ctrl-shivf-v,
>> is to
>> 1. highlight the text or anything for that matter (such as a web page)
>> 2. right click in the same area
>> 3.
Hi,
> What Alex can do in order to force the highlighted word or text
> to go into the buffer that can be pasted with ctrl-shivf-v,
> is to
> 1. highlight the text or anything for that matter (such as a web page)
> 2. right click in the same area
> 3. select copy
> This will put the copied buffer
On 10/15/2010 08:03 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Friday, October 15, 2010 14:19:28 Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 23:03 -0400, Alex wrote:
>>> Okay, I can now say I really don't like using the middle wheel. It
>>> requires me to take my hands off the keyboard twice. I'd really l
On 15 October 2010 08:03, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Friday, October 15, 2010 14:19:28 Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 23:03 -0400, Alex wrote:
>> > Okay, I can now say I really don't like using the middle wheel. It
>> > requires me to take my hands off the keyboard twice. I'd reall
On 10/15/2010 07:05 AM, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> Okay, I can now say I really don't like using the middle wheel. It
>>> requires me to take my hands off the keyboard twice. I'd really like
>>> to be able to highlight the the mouse, and paste with a keyboard
>>> combination.
>>>
>> You seem to be m
Hi,
>> Okay, I can now say I really don't like using the middle wheel. It
>> requires me to take my hands off the keyboard twice. I'd really like
>> to be able to highlight the the mouse, and paste with a keyboard
>> combination.
>>
> You seem to be mixing up the two methods of copying. You highli
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 23:03 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> I'll bite. How are the two processes different? As far as copying text
> >> they seem exactly the same.
> >
> > They use 2 different "buffers" to store the "copied" text. They can be
> > used together if you so choose
>
> Okay, I ca
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 09:59 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> If you are having trouble with the scroll wheel get a mouse without a
> scroll wheel.
And if you have a mouse with a wheel, because you want a mousewheel,
then you could use the left & right buttons pressed together to act as
the middle but
On 10/14/2010 08:03 PM, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> I'll bite. How are the two processes different? As far as copying text
>>> they seem exactly the same.
>> They use 2 different "buffers" to store the "copied" text. They can be
>> used together if you so choose
> Okay, I can now say I really do
Hi,
> They are usually desktop specific. I only know of Klipper on KDE and
> Clipman on XFCE. I'm sure there is one for Gnome too. Maybe you can
> do,
>
> $ yum search clipboard
Good thought. For completeness, here are the results:
perl-Clipboard.noarch : Copy and paste with any OS
parcellite.x8
Hi,
>> I'll bite. How are the two processes different? As far as copying text
>> they seem exactly the same.
>
> They use 2 different "buffers" to store the "copied" text. They can be
> used together if you so choose
Okay, I can now say I really don't like using the middle wheel. It
requires
On 14 October 2010 08:17, Alex wrote:
> I also knew about gpm for the console, but what selection managers
> could be running in X11?
>
They are usually desktop specific. I only know of Klipper on KDE and
Clipman on XFCE. I'm sure there is one for Gnome too. Maybe you can
do,
$ yum search clipbo
On 10/14/2010 10:53 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I'll bite. How are the two processes different? As far as copying text
> they seem exactly the same.
They use 2 different "buffers" to store the "copied" text. They can be
used together if you so choose
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjch...@rcn.com
cumm
On 10/14/2010 08:20 AM, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> This is how I tested it:
>> in one window, I highlighted text, and Edit->copy
>> In another window, I only highlighted.
>> in a third window, Edit->paste yields contents from first window,
>> and click middle button yields contents from seconds windo
Hi,
> This is how I tested it:
> in one window, I highlighted text, and Edit->copy
> In another window, I only highlighted.
> in a third window, Edit->paste yields contents from first window,
> and click middle button yields contents from seconds window.
> ctrl-shift-v yields same contents as Edit
Hi,
> I think the behaviour to expect now a days is,
>
> 1. If you select but don't copy with either of the following then it
> is expected that you should be able to paste with a click of the
> middle button.
> + right click copy from the context menu
> + Ctrl + c (on regular desktop
On 10/14/2010 07:53 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 23:09 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> On 10/13/2010 11:00 PM, JD wrote:
>>
>>> I have been copying and pasting as I described above
>>> ever since the first X release on BSD.
>>> No control-shift-v and no control-shift-c .
>>
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 00:22 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > And you are missing the point. There are two separate processes. One
> > of them copy/pastes to the system wide copy/paste "buffer", is the same
> > as EDIT/copy and EDIT/paste in most menus, and can be bound to
> > keystrokes or either
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 23:09 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 11:00 PM, JD wrote:
>
> > I have been copying and pasting as I described above
> > ever since the first X release on BSD.
> > No control-shift-v and no control-shift-c .
> > Just hightlight with left button and paste with
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 09:22 PM, Alex wrote:
> Ideally, I'd like to be able to highlight text in any application and
> have it automatically copied to the buffer, then use the right mouse
> button, or ctrl-v, to paste somewhere else.
I think the behaviour to expect now a days is,
1. If you
On 10/13/2010 08:09 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 11:00 PM, JD wrote:
>
>> I have been copying and pasting as I described above
>> ever since the first X release on BSD.
>> No control-shift-v and no control-shift-c .
>> Just hightlight with left button and paste with middle
>> butt
Hi,
> And you are missing the point. There are two separate processes. One
> of them copy/pastes to the system wide copy/paste "buffer", is the same
> as EDIT/copy and EDIT/paste in most menus, and can be bound to
> keystrokes or either c-c and c-v or similar. The other is done by just
> highli
On 10/13/2010 11:00 PM, JD wrote:
> I have been copying and pasting as I described above
> ever since the first X release on BSD.
> No control-shift-v and no control-shift-c .
> Just hightlight with left button and paste with middle
> button. No fuss and no mess :) :)
And you are missing the poin
On 10/13/2010 07:54 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 10:04 PM, JD wrote:
>>On 10/13/2010 06:08 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>> On 10/13/2010 03:42 PM, Alex wrote:
Hi,
For some reason, simply highlighting text in a Terminal no longer
copies it to the buffer. I
On 10/13/2010 10:04 PM, JD wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 06:08 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> On 10/13/2010 03:42 PM, Alex wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> For some reason, simply highlighting text in a Terminal no longer
>>> copies it to the buffer. I must right-click then select copy in order
>>> for it to wor
On 10/13/2010 06:08 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 03:42 PM, Alex wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For some reason, simply highlighting text in a Terminal no longer
>> copies it to the buffer. I must right-click then select copy in order
>> for it to work. What changed? How can I fix this?
> AFA
On 10/13/2010 03:42 PM, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some reason, simply highlighting text in a Terminal no longer
> copies it to the buffer. I must right-click then select copy in order
> for it to work. What changed? How can I fix this?
AFAICT, when you highlight text with the mouse/touchpad, you
Hi,
For some reason, simply highlighting text in a Terminal no longer
copies it to the buffer. I must right-click then select copy in order
for it to work. What changed? How can I fix this?
I thought it might have something to do with screen, but it does it on
any tab, whether screen is being use
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