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Re: Improving X selection?
From: |
Frank Schmitt |
Subject: |
Re: Improving X selection? |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:58:34 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> writes:
> Frank Schmitt wrote:
>
>>
>> They do? For me selecting text with the mouse (and doing nothing else)
>> and then pasting with Sift+Insert works in Emacs, Firefox, KDE
>> programs...
>>
> Peculiar. Firefox, or at least Iceweasel, and KDE Kedit on definitely
> insert CLIPBOARD for me upon shift-insert.
>
> Just in case: Are you mouse-selecting the text /in emacs/ with
> x-select-enable-clipboard set? 'Cos that'd make merely selecting
> the text /in emacs/ set CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY.
>
> If you merely select text with the mouse /in firefox/, say,
> (thereby _probably_ setting PRIMARY), is it inserted upon shift-insert
> in firefox?
>
> The other thing you could do is use a command line tool:
> "xsel -b" returns CLIPBOARD and "xsel -p" PRIMARY.
>
> (PRIMARY conventionally (fd.o conventionally) mapping to
> the currently selected text)
I just found out that I've got a program called klipper running which
synchronizes both. *blush*
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- Re: Improving X selection?, Frank Schmitt, 2008/08/28
- Re: Improving X selection?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2008/08/28
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