will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >the mouse moves its pointer all over the place at your bidding, >and you can select text at the console whether in vi or less or >lynx; and within X your mouse can select text via konqueror (kde) >and quickie notepad-like accessories and in rxvt/xterm/etc. > >coming from the mac background, i'm used to being able to >command-c (control-c) to COPY whatever's been selected via mouse, >which i can then command-v (control-v) PASTE into just about any >place that would accept typed text. > >how does a debian/potato user do the cut-and-paste dance? > >- select text and copy it from console, switch to X, paste into a > netscape or konqueror html form field
There's a pair of nice tools in the wmaker package called wxcopy and wxpaste, which allow you to copy from standard input to the X clipboard and to paste from the X clipboard to standard output. You could use those (probably with a $DISPLAY setting to select the right X display) to copy and paste between the console and X. I've got a wishlist bug open to split these out of wmaker - they're not dependent on it as far as I know, so it would be nice if they were separate. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
