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From: fmayhar@hermes.ladc.bull.com (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Openwidows Cut/Paste and xterms
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Date: 10 Dec 90 18:28:46 GMT
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In article <9012071709.AA23568@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters) writes:
|> Curt Vandetta writes:
|> >  I'm wondering if anyone has gotten cut and paste to work between
|> >  command tools or shell tools and an xterm window under Openlook ver 2?
|> >  I can use the left button to cut and the middle button to paste in
|> >  an xterm, and the cut and paste function keys in command tools and
|> >  shell tools.  But they appear to be using different buffers and I can't
|> >  figure out how to make them use the same buffer, any clues?
|> By default xterm uses the primary selection.  The XView cut/copy/paste
|> functions use the clipboard selection.
|> [...]
|> Going the other way is not quite so simple since you can not tell XView
|> objects to copy the primary selection from a non-XView object (or if
|> you can I haven't found out how yet) so you have to copy your xterm
|> selection into the CLIPBOARD selection.

The easiest way to do this is to crank up xclipboard (comes with the
X11 distribution), click the primary selection into it, then go to the
XView application and paste the text in.  This forces an extra step, but
it works.  The only thing to watch out for is that you have to keep
track of which copy of the xclipboard buffer you've pasted it into.  If I
understand it correctly, it has to be the newest incarnation.
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