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Originally Posted by Entropic
I've found that if I double tap and then drag to the right on a given line of text it does the usual highlighting of the selection to be copied, but when I try to drag it off screen, to go to a different window (like the secondary XTerm window I've got running on one of the other 9 screens), it doesn't let me transfer to the different window where I'm then doing what to "paste" ?
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Drag & drop simply doesn't work with xterm. Selecting the text by double left-clicking at the beginning then right clicking at the end of the desired text (with no dragging) does copy it to the PRIMARY, which can be very useful if the text fills multiple screens, and it can then be pasted with middle-click. No need to drag anything, which I would think is actually much more convenient.
Once you get used to the PRIMARY selection mechanism you won't want to go back to the CLIPBOARD. Lack of a PRIMARY is one of the things that keeps me away from Windows :-)