On 19 February 2010 14:59, Chris Jones
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:46:05PM EST, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:
In which applications are you actually wanting to copy/paste?
All/Any.
Right, there's no real generic way of doing things that I know of.
If you mean in the terminal,
Which "terminal"?
xterm, konsole, urxvt, etc. Whichever one you use.
that depends on which terminal you're referring to. However, shift-insert seems to normally paste and you can use applications like xsel to copy output.
Still does not tell me how I should _SELECT_ whatever I need to copy & paste.
With a mouse or one of the programs mentioned earlier in this thread that allows for keyboard control of the pointer.
Realistically, this kind of stuff is program-specific and nothing to do with xmonad.
So what do I do when I want to copy-paste between between application A and application B..?
Copy using program A and paste into program B.
Basically, you're confirming that xmonad does not provide a generic keyboard-driven copy-paste mechanism.
Exactly.
But since no window manager that I know of provides this feature, maybe the flaw is in X's design and xmonad is not to blame.
I would argue that it isn't part of the WM's job to do it (after all, the M is for Manage). Does any other WM (or even a DE) have this sense of universal copy/paste?
Hehe.. Not sure if I'm the duchess or the dormouse any more.
Not sure if I get your reference...
Thank you for your comments.
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