How to copy text selected by gpm from a tty to some gnome-session?

[suvayu ali]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 20:16, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:
> But that would imply that it should work, because gpm works just fine
> in X.  I can select text by double clicking with the mouse, and paste
> it with the middle button, just like in a console.  It even shares
> across workspaces, just like it shares across consoles, and within
> screen instances in the console.  From the behavior, it seem that gpm
> has a separate buffer for the consoles and X.  Or X is just emulating
> gpm behavior.
>

The behaviour you describe is standard X selection behaviour. It is
there irrespective of whether you use gpm. From the package description,
I see that gpm is meant for text consoles (as in ttys).

Name        : gpm
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 1.20.6
Release     : 21.fc16
Size        : 402 k
Repo        : installed