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

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Excúseme i don’t know the xterm behavior..

El El jue, 13 jun 2024 a las 13:28, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
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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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