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| Eli the Bearded... |
 Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:15 am |
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In comp.os.linux.x, Florian Diesch <diesch at (no spam) spamfence.net> wrote:
Quote: X11 has multiple "cut and paste buffers". Most used are PRIMARY and
CLIPBOARD.
Hmmm.
Quote: Middle click uses the PRIMARY, menu items usually use CLIPBOARD.
Okay.
[I asked:]
Quote: Is there a good way to keep these two buffers in sync?
Do you really want to override the clipboard every time you select
something with the mouse?
Yes. Most definately. This is the behavior I expect.
Quote: There are some "clipboard managers" out there, maybe one of them can
do this.
I'll look into them. I'd be fine with a command line utility that
could be used to clobber one buffer with the other. Already knowing
the names of these facilities is pulling up some interesting links.
Elijah
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| noauth... |
| Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:36 pm |
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Quote: There are some "clipboard managers" out there, maybe one of them can
do this.
I'll look into them. I'd be fine with a command line utility that
could be used to clobber one buffer with the other. Already knowing
the names of these facilities is pulling up some interesting links.
Check out xsel. Unfortunately I can't remember the download URL. The
author's email is conrad at vergenet dot net. It's most useful to do
the things you wish and only comprises a small command-line
utility. It should be included as an X utility and come with X11
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| Mark Hobley... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:08 am |
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Eli the Bearded <* at (no spam) eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
Quote: Increasingly I find that I am on systems that have two incompatible
cut and paste buffers. I run into it most often (but not exclusively)
cuting and pasting between Firefox and xterms.
I have the same problem with firefox and xterms, so I will file a bug /
feature request against this.
Quote: Sometimes a middle
click will paste nothing in Firefox. Sometimes something copied[*]
from Firefox won't paste in an xterm.
Yeah, its bloody annoying that right click does not paste the same
content as menu, edit, paste.
Have you discovered any other applications that do this?
Mark.
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| Anton Ertl... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:25 am |
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markhobley at (no spam) hotpop.donottypethisbit.com (Mark Hobley) writes:
Quote: Eli the Bearded <* at (no spam) eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
Increasingly I find that I am on systems that have two incompatible
cut and paste buffers. I run into it most often (but not exclusively)
cuting and pasting between Firefox and xterms.
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Have you discovered any other applications that do this?
I often have this problem when copying from Iceape (Seamonkey) to
Emacs. Usually a remedy is to select something in Emacs, then select
something in Iceape (and see that the Emacs selection vanishes), then
paste it in Emacs. Sometimes this does not help, then I try copying
from Iceape to an xterm, and from the xterm to Emacs.
- anton
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| Eli the Bearded... |
| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:33 pm |
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In comp.os.linux.x, Mark Hobley <markhobley at (no spam) hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
Quote: Have you discovered any other applications that do this?
Yes, Open Office. There aren't a whole lot of X11 programs I use
with any frequency[*], so there may be many more I haven't noticed.
[*] Running right now on this computer are 24 xterms, firefox, xbiff,
xload, xclock, and a window manager. OpenOffice, VMware, Gimp,
gv, xpdf, and feh (image viewer) have all been run in the past
week. Add in acroread for PDFs that xpdf screws up, and that's
about all that I ever run that's not terminal oriented.
The suggestion by anonymous (anon at (no spam) remailer.gabrix.ath.cx) of xsel is
much appreciated. It looks perfect.
Elijah
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points off Mark Hobley for using a bogus hostname not ending in .invalid |
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| Mark Hobley... |
| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:08 pm |
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Eli the Bearded <* at (no spam) eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
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Elijah
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points off Mark Hobley for using a bogus hostname not ending in .invalid
My mailserver is down at this time. It was redirected but yahoo started
bouncing my mail, so email is down down down at this time.
Mark.
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| Eli the Bearded... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 3:12 pm |
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In comp.os.linux.x, Mark Hobley <markhobley at (no spam) hotpop.donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
Quote: points off Mark Hobley for using a bogus hostname not ending in .invalid
My mailserver is down at this time. It was redirected but yahoo started
bouncing my mail, so email is down down down at this time.
$ whois donottypethisbit.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
No match for "DONOTTYPETHISBIT.COM".
Quote: Last update of whois database: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:09:16 UTC
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If anyone ever registers that host, they probably won't like that
you've been using it. The .invalid top level domain exists for
various not real hostnames. You should be using it.
Elijah
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