Looking for light terminal that supports copy and paste to other applications
I am using debian base + fluxbox.
I used to use xterm, but it does not support copy & paste. So, I use xfce-terminal. I want to know are there any light terminal that supports copy & paste to other applications. xfce-terminal is not light enough. |
Actually, it does support "copy-and-paste", it just does not support they key-bindings you are used to using.
Shift-Delete is used for cutting text, and Shift-Insert is used for pasting text. If I right click on a link for something in Firefox (let's say, the latest ISO of my BSD or Linux distro of choice) and select "Copy Link Location..." I can easily pop over into an Xterm, type in "wget " and then press Shift-Insert and the URL I want to download fills in. :) |
Hi,
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I have used mrxvt and its really lightweight, supports tabs and is completely configurable.
You can also try aterm. |
mrxvt supported copy and paste?
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Why oh why aren't you using screen in whatever terminal you're using? I have to say, screen is the most useful tool in a terminal. It also supports copy and paste.
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ |
Should be able to copy text from xterm by highlighting it with the mouse.
then clicking the middle mouse button to paste it where you want.. |
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He just needs a lightweight terminal with cut/paste functionality (which IMHO almost every terminal does) - no mention of terminal multiplexer. |
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Here is the "yo" in detail
There are tantalising references in the mrxvt documentation that suggest copy to clipboard is in development. From the man 0.5.4 page (dated January 10, 2006 so from a much earlier release): "Copy Copy selection into clipboard (not implemented)" and from the undated but probably later draft man page "CopySel: save terminal selection into clipboard". The "Copy" action can be assigned to a hotkey ("macro" in mrxvt terminology) and produces no error at startup but when it run produces "Support for macro type 'Copy' not compiled". This was on an installation of mrxvt built using config with options --enable-everything --disable-debug. Assigning "CopySel" to a macro results in this error at startup: "Action CopySel is not of known type. This mrxvt limitation is inconvenient rather than a showstopper when working on one machine but it is a showstopper regards copy and paste between VirtualMachine host and guest (and probably using other virtualisation software). There may be a workaround by configuring a macro to run a utility that transfers the contents of X PRIMARY to CLIPBOARD. I'll be investigating this (autocutsel, DDM, TomBoy, uclip, xclip, xclipboard, xfce4-clipman-plugin and xsel) and will update this thread with any useful findings. If anyone has comments on the suitability of those utilities (mustn't open a window or be "heavy") then please reply. |
Solution to provide clipboard copy and paste in mrxvt posted in this Blog entry.
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