Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:20:48 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: "Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get clipboard working - X Message-ID: <20101015212048.GA83261@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4CB89980.5030706@centurytel.net> References: <4CB89980.5030706@centurytel.net>
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:12:16PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > > Good day; > > Having a time getting cut and paste to work in a new > FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-p1 installation > > I am using a newly rebuilt world and kernel that I cvsup'd yesterday > but, I was not able to get it > going with GENERIC either. > > #> uname -a > #> ******.**********.net 8.1-RELEASE-p1 > ******,**********.net:/usr/opj/usr/src/sys/BLACKY101410 > > I have built xclipboard from ports and am using fluxbox ver. 1.1.1 and > Eterm ver. 0.9.5. > I think I should be able to cut and paste between a brower - Firefox - > and Eterm and vice-versa. > I haven't been able to glean the appropriate information from the handbook. > > T.I.A. How are you cutting and pasting? 1) Highlight text with left mouse, paste with middle mouse or 2) Highlight text with left mouse, paste with shift-insert What exactly is not working? Could be a mouse problem but difficult to tell. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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