Re: various selection/clipboard mechanisms in X

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

  this works with most application (I guess you already know it):

  drag left mouse button to select
  click middle mouse button to copy the selected text to focused window
(field)

  here comes the saviour:

  when it does not work, notably with staroffice, use xcutsel, try to
select, click one of the buttons in xcutsel, try to copy ... it usually
works with one button (there are only two buttons in xcutsel) or another
(depending if you copy from or to staroffice or other non-standard
program)

  this is not much of an explanation but it might help you anyway, I was
able to copy almost everything so far (don't remeber anything I couldn't
copy), it helps a lot if you use X servers under ms windows... or use
vnc... etc...

	erik

Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
> 
> Greetings to everyone.
> 
> May I ask where I may find a tutorial or explanation about the use of
> the mouse under X?  I am puzzled by the variations.  Some programs can
> cut and paste into others, while others cannot.  Reading mail in
> Sylpheed, I just noticed, I was able to just highlight a URL (left
> button drag) and then just click with middle button in Netscape
> Location slot.  Then, in another instance when the url was highlighted
> by Sylpheed this didn't work.  Presumeably this is because the URL did
> not have "http://"; prefixed to it in the first instance.
> 
> This is not  a problem isolated to Sylpheed, however.  There are three
> different selection buffer/clipboard programs, not one of which can do
> exactly what I need: xclipboard, xpaste, and xcutsel.  I haven't yet
> figured out the difference.  I think xclipboard is the best; but I
> cannot print without again copying into one of the others!  (Why can't
> I just highlight a paragraph in Netscape and print the highlighted
> region?  Emacs rules!)
> 
> Emacs has it's own way of working with the mouse, and interoperability
> isn't assured, but it seems to be getting better recently.
> 
> Is there some setup to get all these things talking?
> 
> Alan Davis
> Marianas High School,
> 
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