Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 10:48:12 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>, Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Subject: Re: Mouse copy from console to X? Message-ID: <20020714174812.GG83258@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <20020714173907.GA63064@dan.emsphone.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207131414390.58497-100000@wonkity.com> <73GY07GB5482PLZXECD94ZNHKJYT4Y.3d308d8d@sparky> <20020714005513.GC83258@vectors.cx> <20020714173907.GA63064@dan.emsphone.com>
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thing is, that still doesn't give the ability to c&p from what was
already on the console before X started. which was what i gathered the
original poster was asking about.
-Adam
>> (07.14.2002 @ 1039 PST): Dan Nelson said, in 1.1K: <<
> In the last episode (Jul 13), Adam Weinberger said:
> > ctrl-C is a windows copy command. in the unix world, it's often an
> > abort stroke.
>
> Which is why I always use CRTL-INS to copy, and SHIFT-INS to paste.
> Those are the keys MS started using in edit.com, and they still work in
> all Windows apps. I don't know why Windows later decided to steal the
> "break" and "literal" control keys.
>
> > the console clipboard and the X clipboard are indeed 2 different
> > things. when i start X, i redirect stderr to stdout, and tee it to a
> > logfile. your best bet is to dump the console contents you want into
> > a file, and then read that file in X.
>
> I do it by starting a screen session in the console and starting up a
> text editor. I then open an xterm and attach to the same screen
> session (screen -x sessionnumber), and use that to transfer text back
> and forth.
>
> It might be a good Juniour Hacker Project to add clipboard
> reading/writing ioctls to syscons, and write a small daemon to monitor
> it and the X clipboard and shuffle data from one to the other.
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson@allantgroup.com
>
>> end of "Re: Mouse copy from console to X?" from Dan Nelson <<
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