Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
On 2013-12-21 20:53 +0100, 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.
How exactly did you copy the text?
> But I'm using XFCE now, and
> xterm seems to be the default terminal emulator application under XFCE.
Nothing stops you from using gnome-terminal under XFCE, I suppose…
> Before you tell me that "Google is my friend", or some other trite brush-off
> saying, let me tell you that I have done my homework on this. I have searched
> the internet. 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. I use a traditional
> PS/2 mouse. It has two, and only two, mouse buttons. It has no thumbwheel.
>
> Has anyone succeeded in getting this to work in a Debian XFCE environment?
I don't use XFCE, but I have set xterm's selectToClipboard resource to
true, meaning that text you select in xterm can be pasted into other
applications with Ctrl-V, and Shift-Ins pastes text from the clipboard
into xterm.
Cheers,
Sven
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