From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 129131 invoked by alias); 15 Feb 2018 12:44:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 129103 invoked by uid 89); 15 Feb 2018 12:44:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=tunnel, highlighted, HCc:D*caltech.edu, paid X-HELO: out5-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:44:05 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6060020EBD; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 07:44:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 15 Feb 2018 07:44:04 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-179-112-159.range86-179.btcentralplus.com [86.179.112.159]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E1CB47E4C4; Thu, 15 Feb 2018 07:44:03 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Spurious pastes To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <1e7a9c8c3f8625a43e1cef9cfcb95e12@saf.bio.caltech.edu> <7945947c-5872-ef24-0924-b86d39876749@dronecode.org.uk> Cc: mathog@caltech.edu From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <0c2c4332-7e26-c325-33ac-89c38d49f14d@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:44:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2018-02/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 >>> On 02-Feb-2018 13:13, David Mathog wrote: >>>> I seem to recall that before this if I highlighted a region in an >>>> xterm window, then moved to another X11 application window, and center >>>> clicked, it would paste the highlighted text.  However, if nothing was >>>> highlighted in the last window, nothing would paste.  My memory may be >>>> faulty on this issue though, as I never paid a lot of attention to it >>>> before it started misbehaving. >>> >>> That wasn't right, but cut/paste is slightly different between "on >>> the console" and "over putty ssh tunnel with X11 Server on Windows". >>> >>> On an XFCE4 ubuntu system console this is what happens: >> >> I'm guessing this means a non-X terminal? > > That is a regular X11 server, xorg 1.15.1.  It just acts differently in > that it was possible to "select nothing". Hmm... I'm not sure what to make of that. In my brief testing, the behaviour does seem to vary with different terminals: terminator doesn't let you select an empty region, lxterm empties the selection (your expected behaviour), and xterm/rxvt don't change the selection. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/