From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 97495 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2018 22:26:25 -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 97154 invoked by uid 89); 2 Feb 2018 22:26:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*r:apache, Press, tunnel, H*MI:bio X-HELO: newsaf.bio.caltech.edu Received: from newsaf.bio.caltech.edu (HELO newsaf.bio.caltech.edu) (131.215.12.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 22:26:22 +0000 Received: from apache by newsaf.bio.caltech.edu ([local]:local) with local id 1ehjmn-0001Ns-HT - Using Exim-4.72 (MandrivaLinux) MTA (return-path ); Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:26:21 -0800 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Spurious pastes HTTP-Posting-Client: 131.215.12.39 HTTP-Posting-URI: saf.bio.caltech.edu:443/roundcubemail/index.php HTTP-Posting-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 X-PHP-Originating-Script: 0:rcmail.php MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 22:26:00 -0000 From: David Mathog Reply-To: mathog@caltech.edu Mail-Reply-To: mathog@caltech.edu In-Reply-To: <1e7a9c8c3f8625a43e1cef9cfcb95e12@saf.bio.caltech.edu> References: <1e7a9c8c3f8625a43e1cef9cfcb95e12@saf.bio.caltech.edu> Message-ID: X-Sender: mathog@caltech.edu User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.5 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: apache@saf.bio.caltech.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on newsaf.bio.caltech.edu); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-02/txt/msg00001.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: 1. type "pwd" into an uxterm window 2. highlight "pwd" on the line at the preceding prompt, center click once at the current prompt. "pwd" is pasted. Press "enter". 3. left click once on the still highlighted "pwd", now 2 lines up. The highlight goes away. Center click once at the prompt. "pwd" is still pasted. Press "enter". 4. With the left mouse button drag across any letter and back to the original position. So nothing is highlighted. This can be on any text anywhere in the window. Center click at the prompt. Nothing is pasted - the paste buffer is now empty. So on the console it is possible to select "nothing". On the X11 server ssh to the Ubuntu system and it is the same for the first 3 steps, but the 4th still pastes "pwd". The rule seems to be "paste buffer can be replaced by anything selected, but not by a select operation which ends with nothing highlighted." On the X11 server ssh to the Centos system, it behaves just like a similar connection to the Centos system. The operations do the same thing when going between two uxterm windows on any of these tests. Which is right? Is "nothing" a valid thing to load into the paste buffer or no? Is there a standard way to clear this buffer? Thanks, David Mathog mathog@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech -- 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/