Copy and paste in Terminal

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 10/13/2010 10:04 PM, JD wrote:
>   On 10/13/2010 06:08 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> On 10/13/2010 03:42 PM, Alex wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> For some reason, simply highlighting text in a Terminal no longer
>>> copies it to the buffer. I must right-click then select copy in order
>>> for it to work. What changed? How can I fix this?
>> AFAICT, when you highlight text with the mouse/touchpad, you can "copy"
>> it only with the middle button (or both buttons on a two button
>> mouse/touchpad).  This is *not* the same as COPY/PASTE, but a similar
>> functionality.  You lose the ability to copy the highlighted text as
>> soon as the highlight goes away (presumably by a click somewhere else).
>>   It is a function of X11.
>>
>>> I thought it might have something to do with screen, but it does it on
>>> any tab, whether screen is being used or not.
>> It still works for me in Fedora 12.  What version are you running?
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
> Well, on my system, all I have to do is highlight it
> and it automatically is in the copy buffer, and I
> can paste it with the middle button.

Nope, I just tried it.  I copied some text to the copy/paste buffer.
Then I highlighted some text with the mouse.  I clicked to paste the
highlighted text, used ctrl-shift-v to paste the copy/paste buffer text,
then clicked again to paste the highlighted text again.  They are
seperate and different on my system.  This is the way I expect it to
work, and has worked for me since *way* back in the X11-R3 days of the
1990's....

(I was using X11 on Sun workstations before Linus released his first
version of linux on the free world.  My first 5 1/4" disc was for
linux-0.12, and that was before there was X11 support in Linux.  B^)

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