From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 21:20:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA43106566B for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from asmtp1.iomartmail.com (asmtp1.iomartmail.com [62.128.201.248]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F118FC21 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from asmtp1.iomartmail.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by asmtp1.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9FLKoXO000687; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:20:50 +0100 Received: from orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (80-45-152-196.static.dsl.as9105.com [80.45.152.196]) (authenticated bits=0) by asmtp1.iomartmail.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9FLKnee000679; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:20:49 +0100 Received: by orange.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C621C33C1F; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:20:48 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:20:48 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: "Michael D. Norwick" Message-ID: <20101015212048.GA83261@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <4CB89980.5030706@centurytel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CB89980.5030706@centurytel.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 amd64 X-Organisation: 'shute.org.uk' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get clipboard working - X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:20:56 -0000 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