Re: Copy to clipboard for Linux

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 14 July 2006 03:23 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>>I'm not an X-pert (the usual disclaimer), but I believe there is
>>indeed some confusion here, and I think it is with the phrase
>>"clipboard".  From what I'm seeing in the code, this feature of being
>>able to copy the X11 gnuplot image is not using the clipboard.
> 
> 
> It is.
> 
> See for example
>     http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

This seems to read almost exactly like what I explained previously, e.g., :

"But what about the middle mouse button?

    It happens that X11 programs have a second way of copying and pasting text that is orthogonal to the Edit/Copy way described above. This causes confusion, because some people mix the two up. Here's how the other way works:

        * Select the text to copy.
          This causes the text to become the Primary Selection.
        * In another window, click the middle mouse button.
          This causes the current value of the Primary selection to be inserted. "


Dan