![]() The PRIMARY buffer is often overwritten by inadvertent highlighting before the user is ready to paste. However, this selection buffer is unfortunately not used at all by xterm in the default configuration.īecause of the use of multiple buffers, text highlighted in xterm cannot be pasted into a modern application with CTRL-V (or Edit->Paste). This selection buffer is the standard means of performing cut-and-paste operations in most modern applications. The “CLIPBOARD” selection buffer is used for the cut-and-paste functions that most users are familiar with: Selecting the “cut”, “copy” or “paste” menu items from the application’s “Edit” menu, or using the corresponding CTRL-X, CTRL-C, or CTRL-V shortcut keys. Most modern applications support this buffer. This cut-and-paste buffer is a legacy function which new users are generally not told about, in the interests of avoiding mass confusion. ![]() The text in this buffer is pasted when the user presses the middle mouse button in an application’s text entry field. The “PRIMARY” selection buffer receives data when the user highlights text with the mouse. FastX reads the contents of the CLIPBOARD buffer only. X applications have multiple copy buffers when selecting text, two of which are PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD. If you choose the Xterm option in the suggestions, this command is automatically runĪlternatively, add the following line to your $HOME/.Xdefaults file: : xterm -ls -xrm ‘XTerm*selectToClipboard: true’ Removing the xterm- color checking script from the skel/.bashrc would only affect new users on a system, who, if they had used a NIX before and noticed their xterm-color terminals werent giving color prompts, could find the instructions on the wiki (or this bug report or the forum or blog posts or other places its bound to turn up eventually. Launch an xterm with the selectToClipboard option set i.e. xterm by default only supports the PRIMARY buffer. This is due to the fact that FastX only uses the CLIPBOARD buffer for copying and pasting text. When highlighting a selection in xterm you may notice that the selection does not get sent to the clipboard (and therefore you cannot paste).
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