Change X Windows select to copy
Yong Huang
yong321 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 24 23:04:22 UTC 2011
I'd like to change the behavior of X Windows from copying when you select (highlight), ideally to copying when you press Control-C and pasting when you press Control-V. The man page for xterm has these lines as example
*VT100*translations: #override \n\
~Shift~Ctrl<Btn2Up>: insert-selection(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Shift~Ctrl<Btn2Up>: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER1) \n\
~Shift<BtnUp>: select-end(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Shift<BtnUp>: select-end(CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER1)
which I added to ~/.Xdefaults. With that, I can't figure out how to copy. If I got that to work, I think I could change the left column to Ctrl-C... Any suggestion? Is that the right way to go?
Yong Huang
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