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Old 19th October 2009
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Copying text in X is really easy, it's just unlike how it's done with typical GTK/Qt-based toolkits or Microsoft Windows.

In xterm for example.. select the text you wish to copy using the left mouse button, and paste it into an input form using the 3rd mouse button (..typically the scroll wheel).

You really need a mouse with 3 buttons, otherwise X will just emulate it when you are pressing both the left and right buttons simultaneously.

I've thrown out all of my 2 button mouses, they're really quite useless.

The method of redirecting to a file and attaching it to the forum works as well, often people forget to use the [code][/code] blocks when posting things and it kind of messed up the formatting.
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