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Re: Xwinclip documentation

Syl,

X apps aren't as standard as Windows apps when it comes to cut/copy/paste. You can almost always bet that clicking the middle mouse button in an X app will paste text. Other than that, for Emacs you have Ctrl+Y, for Mozilla you have Ctrl+C, for KDE you have ???, for Gnome you have ???, get the point? You are going to have to figure out how to cut and paste *within* X before you can expect to cut and paste between X and Windows.

Harold

Syl wrote:

No special ketstrokes involved.  You just follow whatever mechanism you
use to copy text in Windows and X.  In Windows, this is usually Ctrl+C
to copy and Ctrl+V to paste.  In X, you can usually copy by highlighting
text (it will be immediately unhighlighted, don't ask) with the mouse.



Okay Ctrl+C in MS Windows but what command keystroke to emulate Ctrl+V in
Cygwin/XFree/twm?

Thanks

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