Re: two button mouse makes clipboard copy from rxvt to nedit impossible

[Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz>]

Try clicking buttons one and two simultaneously.


On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:

> I run X with a two button mouse, and I am forced to have Emulate3Button
> disabled.
> 
> This makes it impossible to copy data from terminal emulators such as rxvt,
> xterm, gemvt and eterm, to standard X applications such as Nedit, Netscape
> Navigator, GTK text/entry widgets and so on.
> 
> This is because you can only insert text copied from the terminal emulator
> to the destination non-terminal emulator application with a middle mouse
> click.
> 
> I find this behaviour rather irrational. Even if you only can select and
> copy text from a terminal emulator with the mouse, pasting in other
> applications is usually done with the keyboard (through Ctrl+V or
> Shift+Ins). When you're in the middle of editing a document in an X-based
> editor, you don't want to reach for the mouse just to insert text, even if
> it came from a shell session.
> 
> Also, it seems illogical to me that Shift+Ins in an terminal emulator may
> insert a piece of text, while at the same time Shift+Ins in an editor in X
> will insert something completely different.
> 
> My question is now, is there a way, with the keyboard, to explicitly copy
> data from this "buffer" shared by terminal emulators into the "real"
> clipboard buffer used to other applications? Or do I have to make a custom
> terminal emulator? (And probably rewrite a bunch of other applications with
> this behavior.)
> 
> Oskar Liljeblad (osk@hem.passagen.se)
> 
> 1. X and X applications should be designed to work even with one-button
> mice.
> 2. Emulate3Button makes response slow or makes some button combinations
> impossible.
> 3. It should be possible to control every X application entirely with the
> keyboard.
> 
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