From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 10:51:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A5316A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:51:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99D643D41 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:51:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D64u1-0005P2-Ou for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:46:58 +0100 Received: from pool-22-147.adsl.dn.farlep.net ([213.130.22.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:46:57 +0100 Received: from arcade by pool-22-147.adsl.dn.farlep.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:46:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Volodymyr Kostyrko Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:50:59 +0200 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <20050228141942.32fc59c1@ale.varnet.bsd> <20050228173630.83467.qmail@web53305.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-22-147.adsl.dn.farlep.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; uk-UA; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050111 X-Accept-Language: uk, ru, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20050228173630.83467.qmail@web53305.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-MailScanner-From: freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I cut and paste from xterm _into_ another program ? (NOTE - I am not an IDIOT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:51:47 -0000 Joe Schmoe wrote: > Hmmm...so instead of actually reading my post, several > folks have responded ... presumably just looking at > the words "cut" and "paste" in my post and responding > with a tutorial on how to use my mouse buttons. > Thanks. > > So I'll start all over. > > I am running X on fbsd 5.3, with ratpoison as my > window manager. I only run two apps - xterms (1 or 2 > or 3 of them) and opera (my web browser). > > I can cut text in my xterms by simply highlighting it, > and I can paste that text back into that xterm, or a > different xterm by clicking my right mouse button. So > yes, I know how to cut and paste thank you very much. > > I can also cut and paste in opera by selecting text > and choosing edit->copy from the menu - I can then > paste that text back into opera with edit->paste, or > shift+insert, and FURTHER, I can paste that text into > any of my xterms, with shift+insert OR with my right > mouse button. > > THE PROBLEM IS, if I cut text in an xterm, I cannot > paste it in opera. That is the only problem. > > So to recap, I know how to cut and paste - thanks. No > need for the mouse button tutorials. All I want to > know is, why can I not properly cut and paste from > xterm TO opera, when I can already do it successfully > gtom opera TO xterm ? > > Thanks. Hopefully anyone responding will actually > read the post this time. What encodings are you using? -- [WBR], Arcade. [SAT Astronomy/Think to survive!]