Stephen Powell wrote: > I am having trouble copying text from an xterm window into another > application, such as iceweasel, and vice versa. When I was using > GNOME, this worked fine between gnome-terminal and other > applications. But I'm using XFCE now, and xterm seems to be the > default terminal emulator application under XFCE. > ... > Has anyone succeeded in getting this to work in a Debian XFCE > environment? Works perfectly for me. I use left-mouse drag for cut. I use right-mouse for extend. I use middle-mouse for paste. In both XTerm and in Iceweasel and Chromium. Except for extend which doesn't work in the web browsers. Extend only works in traditional X clients like XTerm. In the web browsers if you use C-c, C-x, C-v those operate on the clipboard and not the primary selection and so will be mismatched. But if you use left-mouse, right-mouse, (and middle-mouse in XTerm) in both then both will use the primary selection. > I have learned about the difference between the PRIMARY buffer and > the CLIPBOARD buffer, I have learned about settings to put in > .Xdefaults, etc. But none of the techniques I have found work for > me. But this is configurable. Since you have found this perhaps you have configured it? $ xrdb -q | grep -i -e cut -e paste ...nothing for me...using the defaults... In an XTerm control-middle-drag to see the menu. I do not have Select to Clipboard checked. You said .Xdefaults. Do you want the simple and short answer or the long and detailed answer? The short answer is don't use .Xdefaults but use .Xresources with xrdb instead. They are subtly different. If 'xrdb -q' has any output then your .Xdefaults will be ignored. Almost every desktop session manager sets something in xrdb which will cause the .Xdefaults to be ignored. Ask if you want the longer explanation. To be simple use xrdb to show what you have in memory. What you see there is what is there. If you don't see it then it isn't there. $ xrdb -q | less To make changes: $ $EDITOR .Xresources $ xrdb -m .Xresources # merges your _additions_ with the current Or: $ xrdb -l .Xresources # loads your complete total set overwriting all The choice of -m or -l depends upon if you want to merge or completely overwrite. For example I remember that with KDE it always wanted to have its own settings elsewhere and so it was always -m "merge" when using KDE. But for example with fvwm where the user controls everything then -l "load" and overwrite would be appropriate. > I use a traditional PS/2 mouse. It has two, and only two, mouse > buttons. It has no thumbwheel. You said two mouse buttons. In which case the default is to simulate the middle button by pressing both left and right simultaneously. X emulates the three button mouse through the two button interface. In the old /etc/X11/xorg.conf file this would have had this option in the mouse section. Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" It is possible that one of the problems is the middle button emulation isn't working correctly. Bob
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