From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 17:55:12 2002 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 15C8737B400 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8DE143E5E for ; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:55:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6E0tD2Q090358; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:55:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.4/8.12.4/Submit) id g6E0tDxk090357; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:55:13 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Jud Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Warren Block Subject: Re: Mouse copy from console to X? Message-ID: <20020714005513.GC83258@vectors.cx> References: <73GY07GB5482PLZXECD94ZNHKJYT4Y.3d308d8d@sparky> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <73GY07GB5482PLZXECD94ZNHKJYT4Y.3d308d8d@sparky> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ctrl-C is a windows copy command. in the unix world, it's often an abort stroke. 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. -Adam >> (07.13.2002 @ 1329 PST): Jud said, in 0.6K: << > Have you tried ctrl-C? > > Jud > > > 7/13/2002 4:17:12 PM, Warren Block wrote: > > >Maybe this is easy, but I haven't found any references (pointers > >appreciated). I'd like to be able to copy from a console screen with > >the mouse and then do a paste in X. Or the other way around. > > > >As it is, it seems like these are two separate systems; is there a way > >to use a combined clipboard? > > -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message