[SOLVED] Copy and Paste between xterm and other windows in a Debian XFCE environment

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:24:00 -0500 (EST), Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 14:53 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> But I'm using XFCE now, and xterm seems to be the default terminal
>> emulator application under XFCE.
> 
> No, it's xfce4-terminal. Using xfce4-terminal shouldn't cause copy and
> paste issues.

Installing xfce4-terminal worked for me.  Actually, based on someone
else's post, I installed task-xfce-desktop, which brought in a whole
slew of stuff, including xfce4-terminal, then purged xterm, the lightdm*
stuff, and task-xfce-desktop itself, which has a dependency on lightdm.
(I'm using xdm and don't want to use lightdm or even have it installed.)
xfce4-terminal is now my default terminal emulator in the XFCE desktop
environment.  Shift+Ctrl+C copies and Shift+Ctrl+V pastes in xfce4-terminal.
In most other applications, such as iceweasel, Ctrl+C copies and Ctrl+V
pastes.  That makes sense to require the Shift in the terminal emulator,
since Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V need to retain their historic functions for
terminals.  (Of course, you can also copy and paste via the mouse
and the action bar Edit menu.)

I tried all sorts of stuff regarding .Xresources, as suggested by other
posts, but nothing worked for me in that area.  (That was while I was
still using xterm, of course.)

I couldn't find any documented options in xorg.conf for emulating a
3-button mouse with a 2-button mouse either.  I remember that option
from older versions of the X server.  These days, input devices,
such as keyboards and mice, are expected to be auto-detected.

Thanks to all who participated in this thread.

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