How to get clipboard working - X

[Michael D. Norwick]

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