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Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad of
> laptop. As it worked years ago.

Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the hacks
that people used to mimic the middle button in some X11 setups.  I haven't
seen that in practice in quite some time.  I think people mostly stopped
implementing it, because two-button mice (without scroll wheels) fell
out of the market.

> Didn't think the touchpad had a middle button. Don't know why?

I forgot about laptops with touchpads.  Unfortunately, this is not
an area that I've had to research, so I don't know what the current X
and Wayland implementations do to emulate three-button mice.  Maybe
someone else knows, or maybe you can find some modern-day documentation
about it on the Internet.

> This works on a Dell Vostro laptop.
> 
> Highlight the text in xterm with the left of the touchpad.
> Cursor in highlighted text, press bottom middle of touchpad.
> 
> This alters the block highlight. By pressing the middle of the
> bottom of the touchpad: highlights only the lines in xterm.
> 
> Go to text editor, in my instance: Kate. Place cursor where to paste.
> Dialogue box comes up. Select paste and it does that.
> 
> Doesn't work in LyX but if placed in text editor Kate first, can be
> copied Ctrl+C, then in LyX, Ctrl+V.

Since you mention xterm, you might want to read the xterm(1) man page
and what it has to say about SELECT/PASTE and specifically what it
says about the selectToClipboard option.  Apparently you can configure
xterm so that what you highlight with the mouse goes into the clipboard
instead of the selection.  Then, you could paste it with Shift-Insert
in another application, probably.

I haven't tried that myself.

Another thing you could try (this one, I actually tested):

1) Install the xclip package.
2) Highlight (select) the text with the left button.
3) Run this command, anywhere in your X session:
   xclip -o -selection primary | xclip -i -selection clipboard
4) Focus to the target application by clicking/mouse-moving.
5) Press Shift-Insert to paste the clipboard.

Step 3 copies the highlighted text from the selection to the clipboard,
and step 5 pastes from the clipboard.  This works in a large number of
programs, including xterm, rxvt-unicode, and Google Chrome.

If you find this useful, you will probably want to shorten step 3.
You could set up a shell alias that runs this, or a shell key binding
that runs it, or a Window Manager key binding that runs it, or any
other clever thing you can come up with.

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Copy from xterm to text editor........ Charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au> - 2024-06-13 04:30 +0200
  Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-13 05:00 +0200
    Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ Aleix Piulachs <ap77.v68@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 05:10 +0200
    Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au> - 2024-06-13 08:20 +0200
      Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 09:20 +0200
      Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-06-13 13:30 +0200
        Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2024-06-13 14:20 +0200
        Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Aleix Piulachs <ap77.v68@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 15:40 +0200
        Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] fxkl47BF@protonmail.com - 2024-06-14 02:00 +0200
      Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved] Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-13 17:40 +0200
  Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2024-06-13 05:20 +0200
    Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2024-06-14 02:40 +0200

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