How to get clipboard working - X

[Frank Shute]

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

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