Clearing xterm clipboard/selection/cutbuffer

2012-03-13 Thread Ras Far
Hi, I'm having difficulty clearing the clipboard/selection/cutbuffer. Any combination of xsel -[cd] -[psb] fails to clear a selection made in xterm using standard left-drag. I can SET the selection with xsel -i but it cannot be empty, so the best I can do is replace the current selection with a

Re: Clearing xterm clipboard/selection/cutbuffer

2012-03-13 Thread Ras Far
Actually I managed to solve this -- honestly I had been working on it for a long time before writing to the list, funny how that can happen! I find that the combination of the following works; neither alone is enough: xsel --clear --primary (same as xsel -c) xcb -s 0-7 < /dev/null (actu