Re: clipboard again (was Re: Gnumeric and RHEL3)

[Martin Donald <mhd slac stanford edu>]

I was mistaken when I wrote that changing

>       <schema>
>         <key>/schemas/apps/gnumeric/cut-and-paste/prefer-clipboard</key>
>         <applyto>/apps/gnumeric/cut-and-paste/prefer-clipboard</applyto>
>         <owner>Gnumeric</owner>
>         <type>bool</type>
>         <default>FALSE</default>
>         <locale name="C">
>         <short>Prefer CLIPBOARD over PRIMARY selection</short>
>         <long>When TRUE, Gnumeric will prefer the modern CLIPBOARD selection over the legacy PRIMARY selections.  Set to FALSE if you
> +have to deal with older applications, like Xterm or Emacs, which set only the PRIMARY selection.</long>

had solved my copying and pasting problem. I still had the buffer
filled from gedit so the paste from xterm only seemed to work.

This time the solution worked

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:11:23PM -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:12:51AM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:12:48PM -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > > There are no points for *talking* about fixing xterm.  You need to do
> > > it and then sit down and wait for deployment.
> > 
> > To achieve what you seem to want is pretty simple, just add the following
> > one-liner to your VT100 translations in the X resource database, you should
> > be able to find more detailed instructions in the manual.
> > 
> > <BtnUp>:select-end(CLIPBOARD, PRIMARY)
> 
> This will merge more nicely into the stock xterm
> XTerm*VT100*translations:	#override \
>     <BtnUp>:select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0) 
> 
> man xterm will list the stock bindings
> 
> > Fixing the mistake in the wrong place helps no-one. I seem to remember
> > suggesting that Gnumeric didn't seem to use the middle mouse button for
> > anything on empty cells at least, and that seemed an appropriate place
> > to put a paste-PRIMARY feature, since some people seem to want one. I
> > don't know whether Jody would accept a patch to do that, or whether I
> > might be mistaken about the unused status of MMB click in Gnumeric.
> 
> Nothing currently uses it (aside from some demo drag and drop code)
> I'd accept a patch.
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I added

> XTerm*VT100*translations:	#override \
>     <BtnUp>:select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0) 

to my .Xresources file and restarted the X server and copying and
pasting now does really work fron xterm.

Thanks to all of you

Martin.

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	    Martin Donald		mhd slac stanford edu