Stephen Powell wrote: > 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 take it from the above you wish to use C-c, C-x, C-v in the terminal, okay to use Shift-C-c, Shift-C-x, Shift-C-v in the terminal, instead of the mouse for cutting and pasting? Because those do all tend to imply using the clipboard instead of the primary selection. And this is a very personal thing. People either like using one or the other. X has traditionally used the mouse with the primary selection. MS-Windows has traditionally used the keyboard with the clipboard. And the two worlds have been clashing ever since! :-) > 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 still think it should work fine (X primary selection cutting and pasting with the mouse) in the default configuration without any additional configuration added. But regardless I am glad to hear that you have something you are happy with for you. :-) > 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. If you don't have anything set then I believe the default will work okay without any specific configuration. Bob
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