Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: olwm/OpenWindows 2.0 and xterm Message-ID: Date: 24 Jun 91 15:24:41 GMT References: <9106241055.AA17159@cas.org> Sender: news@bu.edu Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????' Lines: 49 In-reply-to: lwv27@CAS.BITNET's message of 24 Jun 91 14:55:24 GMT >>>>> On 24 Jun 91 14:55:24 GMT, lwv27@CAS.BITNET (Larry W. Virden ext. 2487) said: |> I am wondering if this is something peculiar to olwm, or if this is an |> xterm 'feature'. |> I use the left mouse key to select some text. |> I move the most pointer to another window and click left on the window |> decorations to get it to move to the top. |> I move the mouse into the window so that I can insert the selected text |> into that window. |> Clicking the middle key does not insert any text - the buffer is empty. |> Is this xterm or the window manager or a user configuration problem? |> Thanks! |> -- |> Larry W. Virden UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 Larry, Think of exactly what you did: 1. You grabbed the selection by using first-click-hold-drag 2. You then did a first-click 3. Finally you did a middle-click Now, step 2 cleared the old buffer and since you selected nothing, nothing was put into the buffer. This has nothing do with the window manager....it is simply logical. Now, if you want to do something like that, either have xclipboard handy, or have the window already showing. Hope this helps. jc -- -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass (617) 353-2879 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "But to risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. For the man or woman who risks nothing, has nothing, does nothing, is nothing." (Quote from the eulogy for the late Christa McAuliffe.)