Re: Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment
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On 12/21/2013 04:30 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> where do you set this??
> Either interactively with control-middle-mouse-drag down to "Select to
> Clipboard" and check it _or_ set it in your .Xresources.
>
> man xterm
>
> selectToClipboard (class SelectToClipboard)
> Tells xterm whether to use the PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD
for SELECT
> tokens in the selection mechanism. The set-select
action can
> change this at runtime, allowing the user to work with
programs
> that handle only one of these mechanisms. The
default is
> “false”, which tells it to use PRIMARY.
>
> To set this on the fly for testing (session only, not permanent):
>
> $ echo "XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true" | xrdb -m
>
> Put XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true in your ~/.Xresources file for
> permanent configuration.
>
> $ echo "XTerm*SelectToClipboard:true" >> ~/.Xresources
> $ xrdb -m ~/.Xresources
I don't have a .Xresources file.. in all my years of UNIX/Linux, I've
never edited a .xresources file..
pauls-server:~$ ls -l ~.Xresources
ls: cannot access ~.Xresources: No such file or directory
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
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