Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:39:07 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> Cc: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Subject: Re: Mouse copy from console to X? Message-ID: <20020714173907.GA63064@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020714005513.GC83258@vectors.cx> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207131414390.58497-100000@wonkity.com> <73GY07GB5482PLZXECD94ZNHKJYT4Y.3d308d8d@sparky> <20020714005513.GC83258@vectors.cx>
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In the last episode (Jul 13), Adam Weinberger said: > ctrl-C is a windows copy command. in the unix world, it's often an > abort stroke. Which is why I always use CRTL-INS to copy, and SHIFT-INS to paste. Those are the keys MS started using in edit.com, and they still work in all Windows apps. I don't know why Windows later decided to steal the "break" and "literal" control keys. > the console clipboard and the X clipboard are indeed 2 different > things. when i start X, i redirect stderr to stdout, and tee it to a > logfile. your best bet is to dump the console contents you want into > a file, and then read that file in X. I do it by starting a screen session in the console and starting up a text editor. I then open an xterm and attach to the same screen session (screen -x sessionnumber), and use that to transfer text back and forth. It might be a good Juniour Hacker Project to add clipboard reading/writing ioctls to syscons, and write a small daemon to monitor it and the X clipboard and shuffle data from one to the other. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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