On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 03:56:16AM +0000, unman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 06:47:16PM -0800, Andrew David Wong wrote: > > On 12/10/20 6:25 AM, unman wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 06:49:35PM -0800, Andrew David Wong wrote: > > > > I used to be able to be able to do the following to copy text from > > > > xterm in > > > > Fedora and Debian VMs: > > > > > > > > 1. Select/highlight the desired text, thereby inserting it into the > > > > PRIMARY > > > > buffer. > > > > > > > > 2. Press <Ctrl + middle mouse button> in order to bring up a menu (I > > > > think > > > > it was the "VT Options" menu). > > > > > > > > 3. In this menu, select the option to copy text from the PRIMARY buffer > > > > to > > > > that VM's local clipboard. > > > > > > > > 4. Press <Ctrl + Shift + C> to copy text to the Qubes inter-VM > > > > clipboard and > > > > proceed as usual. > > > > > > > > However, some time ago, step 2 suddenly stopped working, and I have no > > > > idea > > > > why. Pressing <Ctrl + middle mouse button> in xterm now does nothing, > > > > as far > > > > as I can tell. I've checked my trackpad/mouse settings, and everything > > > > seems > > > > fine and unchanged. I've tried pressing the left and right mouse buttons > > > > simultaneously instead, but nothing. > > > > > > > > I know that I can probably create custom xterm settings that will allow > > > > me > > > > to copy text, but I'd still like to know whether there's a way to do it > > > > by > > > > default for cases in which the VM is uncustomized. Does anyone know if > > > > there > > > > is such a way? > > > > > > > > > > On Debian you can hold down the Ctrl key before pressing the button, to > > > get the > > > VT options menu. See if that works for you. Does for me. > > > > > > > No, that's exactly the behavior I described as no longer working for me. > > <Ctrl + middle mouse button> means the same thing as holding down Ctrl > > before pressing the middle mouse button. > > > > In my experience, holding a key down *before* another action does not > always work the same as performing both actions simultaneously, so I > did not think that these "meant the same thing". > Can you call up the Main options, and Font menus using buttons 1 and 2? >
Add "XTerm*selectToClipboard:true" to ~/.Xdefaults and you need not invoke the menu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20201211041406.GA2287%40thirdeyesecurity.org.
