From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 12:48:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA16354 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.iastate.edu (cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA16289 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:48:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunfire.cs.iastate.edu (sunfire.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.46]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) with ESMTP id OAA08080; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:48:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by sunfire.cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) with SMTP id OAA09434; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:48:31 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sunfire.cs.iastate.edu: ghelmer owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:48:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer To: Eivind Eklund cc: abbott at MPCA , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: better xterm? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970422174449.00b38650@dimaga.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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