The copying of positions and games now works fine in XBoard. But another problem surfaced: people also want to copy text from the engine-output window. I guess this is a very legitimate wish: people want to analyze positions, to see at which depth the engine finds the solution to a tactical problem, and then post that Thinking Output on a forum.
Knowing about the selection vs clipboard probem, I tried to select text in the Engine-Output window (which is a read-only text widget), and indeed I am able to copy that to another window (I tried the XBoard Edit-Comment popup, but I suppose other writable text widgets of X applications would work as well), by pressing Shift+Insert. (I also tried right-clicking, but that did not work.) But gedit ignores the selection, and can only paste from clipboard. How can I transfer the selection to the clipboard in X? Is there a key stroke or a mouse click for that? Or must we define our own routine to make that transfer, and provide a button or context menu or define a mouse click to invoke that routine? _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
