XTerm paste from clipboard

Posted Mar 7 2012, 14:49 by William Shallum [updated Apr 16 2013, 23:44]

XTerm pastes from the PRIMARY selection by default. To make it paste from clipboard on shift-insert and use shift-btn up to copy to clipboard:

xterm.VT100.Translations:    #override \n\
        Shift <KeyPress> Insert:        insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
        <Btn2Up>:                       insert-selection(SELECT, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
        ~Shift<BtnUp>:                  select-end(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
        Shift<BtnUp>:                   select-end(CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER1)

Put in your .Xresources (or .Xdefaults). Confused: Difference between .Xresources and .Xdefaults tl;dr: Xresources: new, sticks to server but must be loaded with xrdb, Xdefaults: old, loaded on the X client filesystem, not read if xrdb has been used.

PS: the program that can grab the hierarchy of Xt windows is editres

References

• xterm man page
• http://superuser.com/questions/243914/xresources-or-xdefaults
• http://linux.seindal.dk/2005/06/16/xterm-and-the-clipboard/

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