Cut&Paste in xterm

2004-06-01 Thread Ariel Burbaickij
Dear all, happy my question about possibilty to start windows applications direclty has provoked rather vivid discusion. Now for a change extremly dumb question: Cut & paste inside xterm of cygwin X-server does not work neither traditional highlight and point to where you want to have it method, no

Re: Cut&Paste in xterm

2004-06-04 Thread Jason Dufair
I've been meaning to post this same question for weeks. I Googled quite extensively and found nothing. My question regards Rxvt in X mode, but I suspect it's the same issue. I'm running with the following switches: -multiwindow -clipboard -multiplemonitors -nounixkill Is anyone successfully cu

Re: Cut&Paste in xterm

2004-06-04 Thread Tom Sobczynski
For a data point, I invoke the Cygwin X.org server with -multiwindow and -clipboard, and I can cut and paste between Windows and Gnome applications in both directions. To speculate wildly about your troubles with Rxvt, I wonder if there are problems mapping the multiple X selections to the single

Re: Cut&Paste in xterm

2004-06-04 Thread Jason Dufair
I think I've finally gotten to the bottom of the problem. I have discovered that highlighting in Rxvt does copy on to the Windows clipboard after all, but that pasting by clicking the middle mouse button does not work. It turns out that I have my middle button set to double-click. When I set my

Re: Cut&Paste in xterm

2004-06-04 Thread Cary Jamison
"Jason Dufair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I think I've finally gotten to the bottom of the problem. I have > discovered that highlighting in Rxvt does copy on to the Windows > clipboard after all, but that pasting by clicking the middle mouse > button does

Re: Cut&Paste in xterm

2004-06-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Jason Dufair wrote: > Is there any way for Cygwin/X to paste with the middle button in X windows, > regardless of what the driver setting is for the middle button? Would > this even be desirable? No. Cygwin/X can not workaround bugs or misconfiguration in device drivers. bye