On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:23:16AM -0500, Haines Brown said > > From: Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> > > > > > To copy from xterm, highlight the region you want to copy with the > > > > left mouse button. To paste somewhere else, middle-click. > > >=20 > > > Sorry - not working (with middle mousebutton; I don't expect span to > > > work because I didn't say to emulate three-button when I > > > installed).=20 > > > > If you re-run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", you can change this. > > Yes, but why do I need to emulate 3-button when I have a middle > scroll-button on the mouse? You don't. Click your wheel. > > > But my question was actually about how to paste from the keyboard. > > > > Somethine like this should work: > > > > $ apt-get -y install blah > /tmp/log 2>&1 > > That's not quite what I meant. I know I can do this, but it's not > really copying and pasting to and from xterm with the keyboard. One > disadvantage is when the program I'm running in xterm involves a > prompt, it is hidden by a pipe. So I'm in the habit of using instead > the script utility. It allows me to respond to prompts, and it records > my inputs as well. Fair enough. > I'm beginning to suspect that the reason I'm not able to copy/paste > with xterm is that I discovered that gmp was not installed as part of > the basic debian package. I installed it, and when I next restart the > X server, I'll see if I can use the clipboard with xterm. No, GPM is only useful at all on an actual virtual terminal. X does not need it all for full mouse use. If you use GPM, then you'll need to reconfigure X to use /dev/gpmdata as it's mouse source, and make sure GPM is set to repeat the mouse data. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Compsec militia AVN Semtex BATF TELINT supercomputer VX Elvis
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