Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:35:15 -0500 From: "Michael D. Norwick" <mnorwick@centurytel.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get clipboard working - X Message-ID: <4CB8E533.8000104@centurytel.net> In-Reply-To: <20101015212048.GA83261@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <4CB89980.5030706@centurytel.net> <20101015212048.GA83261@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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Frank Shute wrote: > 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, > > Thank You, I'm still working on it but you gave me a heads-up. I think my trackball is broke. Michael
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