Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread fxkl47BF
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

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/06/2024 12:42, Charlie wrote: Didn't think the touchpad had a middle button. Don't know why? Middle click can be configured for touchpads as 2 or 3 fingers tap or as simultaneous press on both hardware buttons (if they exist), see the libinput(4) man page and https://wayland.freedeskto

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Aleix Piulachs
Excúseme i don’t know the xterm behavior.. El El jue, 13 jun 2024 a las 13:28, Greg Wooledge escribió: > 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

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ
On Thursday, 13 June 2024 07:27:47 -04 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

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
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.

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Just a note Some terminal emulators don't automatically copy highlighted text. You need to copy it manually before moving to the target file It's so long since I've tolerated such terminals I'm not sure but try ctrl-alt-c Else, right click with the mouse pointer outside of highlighted text a

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-12 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:56:34 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm > > by Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from > > xterm > > xterm is a terminal emulator