X has two clipboard type thingies. JWZ wrote something about it all. Found it... http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
The first buffer is the highlight and middle button one. The second buffer is the ctrl-c ctrl-v one. Fran :):):) On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:12, Ciprian Popovici wrote: > Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 12:23:34 AM, Andreas Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But what i actually wanted to ask is: can i assign keys somewhere in bb > > to simulate that "middle-mouse-button-click", e.g. some setting in > > bbkeys? > > I have only recently switched from Win to Linux and am quite used to > > Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V... > > Many applications know about Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V too. As for emulating > what the mouse copy&paste with the keys: first of all, you don't need > Ctrl+C anymore. Once you select something (which you'd have to do > anyway before Ctrl+C) it's already copied. I've seen mIRC do this on > Windows, for example, and it saves a little time. But the pasting > needs two things: pressing the middle mouse button AND positioning the > mouse pointer at the right spot. Try this with a bigger text area and > you'll notice that text doesn't get pasted at the text cursor > position, it goes at the mouse pointer position. So this would be > dificult to reproduce with the keys. > > bbkeys does not handle mouse events. There are programs that do. I use > xbut, which you must load into .xinitrc just like you do with bbkeys, > and use ~/.xbutrc to specify which keys to bind to what mouse events > (this includes buttons press AND pointer movement). If you use > separate keys for xbut and bbkeys they can both do their jobs. Haven't > tested common bindings myself, to see what happens. > > Oh, and xbut's home page seems to have gone down. Google's cache > remembers a page telling about xbut 0.4.3, I have 0.4 and have only > found 0.3 with a quick search. A longer search with several FTP search > engines might get you a better version, or maybe someone can send it > to you. If you want 0.4 I'll deliver. > > Ciprian Popovici -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
