Looking for serial terminal program

Chuck Kuecker ckuecker at ckent.org
Mon Apr 12 10:45:34 UTC 2010


NoOp wrote:
> On 04/11/2010 03:19 PM, J wrote:
> ...
>   
>> Aside from cut and paste, what about just highlight and paste?  at
>> least for Xterm all I need to do is open something to paste into (like
>> gedit, or XChat, pastebin, whatever), highlight what I want in the
>> terminal then middle click (3rd button click) in the receiving
>> program...
>>
>> I've found, that at least with Xterm, usual copy-paste things don't
>> work and the control chars get dumped to the terminal... but that way
>> has always seemed to work for some reason.
>>
>>     
>
> Cool! I always have a problem when viewing the details window from the
> Update-Manager. You know the one where the install has stopped waiting
> for a config response; you can "view" the details and select them, but
> never could figure out how to copy the info to gedit. Haven't had an
> update to test today, but I suspect that this will do the trick.
>   
That takes a bit of getting used to, but now I can copy error messages, 
etc. out of GtkTerm and paste them into another window.

Thanks for clarifying the copy operation out of a window with the middle 
button.

Chuck Kuecker





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