From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HqsnH-0001rL-RV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:30:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4NFSsfW020698; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:28:54 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4NFOd0l016148 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 15:24:40 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 099C183445 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 17:17:43 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wLTLN1MRIw13 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 17:17:37 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFF783444 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 17:17:37 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sanet.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.63]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 23 May 2007 17:08:59 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Copy/Paste Functionality in Konsole Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:09:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705311052.54893.danthehat@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200705311052.54893.danthehat@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705231709.38905.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 May 2007 15:08:59.0531 (UTC) FILETIME=[4A707DB0:01C79D4C] X-Archives-Salt: 494fd174-e6ce-47f1-a9f4-dc161a148db5 X-Archives-Hash: 66fe373c856e26d57c0bcf6b4466dca5 On Thursday 31 May 2007, Dan Cowsill wrote: > I have just recently switched over to KDE and started using Konsole, > and I was wondering something. > > I really like the copy/paste functionality you find in the Linux > console and in PuTTY where you just highlight the text you want to > copy and when you release the mouse button, it is copied. Then, you > can just right click to paste it into the input line. > > How would I engineer such functionality in Konsole? It's not the right click that does that, it's the middle click. This is a standard X feature that has been around for ages. If you copied something into the "other clipboard" you can paste it into console with "right click -> paste" or just shift-insert alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list