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Old 8th February 2023
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Originally Posted by Entropic View Post
I just did a search engine (duckduck) search for "how to paste text into FVWM2 window" to get no useful results
The problem of copy&paste is due to xterm rather than the window manager — it is very old and pre-dates such niceties.

You can get the traditional <ctrl>+c/<ctrl>+v shortcuts working in xterm by adding these lines to ~/.Xresources:
Code:
*vt100.translations: #override \n\
   Ctrl Shift <Key>C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
   Ctrl Shift <Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)
Then either log out & back in again or run
Code:
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
I don't bother with that myself though because the PRIMARY method is quicker and easier.

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Originally Posted by Entropic View Post
how do you actually paste what you've CTRL-C (copied) from one window into the FVWM2 window?
For the PRIMARY selection don't use <ctrl>+c at all — just left-click and drag and whatever is highlighted will be copied, then use middle-click to paste the highlighted text. No need to touch the keyboard at all.
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