On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: >> For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad of >> laptop. As it worked years ago. > > Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the hacks > that people used to mimic the middle button in some X11 setups. I haven't > seen that in practice in quite some time. I think people mostly stopped > implementing it, because two-button mice (without scroll wheels) fell > out of the market. > >> Didn't think the touchpad had a middle button. Don't know why? > > I forgot about laptops with touchpads. Unfortunately, this is not > an area that I've had to research, so I don't know what the current X > and Wayland implementations do to emulate three-button mice. Maybe > someone else knows, or maybe you can find some modern-day documentation > about it on the Internet. > >> This works on a Dell Vostro laptop. >> >> Highlight the text in xterm with the left of the touchpad. >> Cursor in highlighted text, press bottom middle of touchpad. >> >> This alters the block highlight. By pressing the middle of the >> bottom of the touchpad: highlights only the lines in xterm. >> >> Go to text editor, in my instance: Kate. Place cursor where to paste. >> Dialogue box comes up. Select paste and it does that. >> >> Doesn't work in LyX but if placed in text editor Kate first, can be >> copied Ctrl+C, then in LyX, Ctrl+V. > > Since you mention xterm, you might want to read the xterm(1) man page > and what it has to say about SELECT/PASTE and specifically what it > says about the selectToClipboard option. Apparently you can configure > xterm so that what you highlight with the mouse goes into the clipboard > instead of the selection. Then, you could paste it with Shift-Insert > in another application, probably. > > I haven't tried that myself. > > Another thing you could try (this one, I actually tested): > > 1) Install the xclip package. > 2) Highlight (select) the text with the left button. > 3) Run this command, anywhere in your X session: > xclip -o -selection primary | xclip -i -selection clipboard > 4) Focus to the target application by clicking/mouse-moving. > 5) Press Shift-Insert to paste the clipboard. > > Step 3 copies the highlighted text from the selection to the clipboard, > and step 5 pastes from the clipboard. This works in a large number of > programs, including xterm, rxvt-unicode, and Google Chrome. > > If you find this useful, you will probably want to shorten step 3. > You could set up a shell alias that runs this, or a shell key binding > that runs it, or a Window Manager key binding that runs it, or any > other clever thing you can come up with. >
with screen you can highlight, copy, and paste with just the keyboard i have not found a way to have screen push selections to the clipboard
