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Old 27th January 2012
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Default is there a way to cut and paste text from xterm ?

Hi Daemonphilists !!

How are you ?

well I have a question that has been preoccupying me for weeks :

Is there a way to cut and paste text from xterm to xterm or file ?
I mean ordinary xterm , not kde konsole or gnome terminal ..

I must admit -& you can smile at this or laugh outloud- that lately I had to install kdebase simply to take advantage of its konsole so I can cut and paste long text , mainly config or rc.conf related text ..

the other stumbling block .. if I can set keyboard in fvwm to shift layouts I will bid gnome farewell ..
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Old 27th January 2012
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To highlight click and hold the L mouse button while moving the cursor over the text. To paste move the cursor to the desired terminal/application and click the scroll button (middle mouse key if you have a classic unix mouse) or depress the L and R mouse buttons simultaneously if you are using a touchpad in a laptop
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Old 27th January 2012
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Friend Shep ,thanks and sorry to say that I didn't get your point ..
I can select text sure but how to copy it then paste it on some other xterm or opened vi text .. I still do not know how ..
help appreciated ..
I am on Acer Aspire 5610 ..
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I am not familair with the Aspire 5610 but on most laptops there should be 2 buttons immediately above or below the touchpad itself. Leave the text highlighted and lightly move the cursor to the other xterm/application. To paste depress both buttons simultaneously.

Xterm does not normally use a clipboard but will put highlighted text into a buffer from which it will paste - no need for a copy step. If you loose the highlighted text attempting to move the cursor there will be nothing in the buffer to paste.
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Old 28th January 2012
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Shep , Thanks very much
It works , like you said last : by pression both L and R mouse buttons .
bye bye konsole !
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Old 30th January 2012
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In X Window system, "highlight" is the same as "copy". It puts the highlighted text into the X Window clipboard. And then you just paste it wherever using the right-mouse button.

And it works at the FreeBSD console as well, before X has loaded.
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Old 30th January 2012
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Hi Phoenix !!
In OpenBSD , I already have set (wsmoused_flags="") in rc.conf.local ..
it does the same I bet ..
the more you learn about the BSDs , the more you get enamored of them ..
and truly and this is My VPoint , the more you learn about Win* , the more you realize how big the loss is .. or better yet : how big the lie is ..
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