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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:48:30 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com>
Cc:        abbott at MPCA <jabbott@wolf.co.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: better xterm?
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.96.970422144640.7120C-100000@sunfire.cs.iastate.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970422174449.00b38650@dimaga.com>

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On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> At 09:40 AM 4/22/97 +0000, abbott at MPCA wrote:
> >The standard xterm that comes with X11R6 from ftp.FreeBSD.org is driving
> >me crazy.  I need to have cut and paste!  Does anyone know of a better
> >xterm?
> 
> Eh - there are other terminal emulators out there, e.g. emu (hope I
> remember the name correctly) - but xterm _do_ have cut and paste.
> Left-button and drag to cut, middle-button (or both buttons if you have a
> two-button mouse) to paste.

Try pressing NumLock once if cut and paste with the mouse is not working. 
I don't know why NumLock affects this, but it drove me nuts until I
figured it out... 

Guy Helmer, Computer Science Grad Student, Iowa State - ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer




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