How to paste in rxvt cygwin
by Mike on Mar.28, 2006, under Uncategorized
I have been looking for this for ages. It used to be that if I didn’t
have my mouse plugged into my laptop I couldn’t paste to a cygwin
terminal (where I spend most of my time). By middle clicking the mouse I
got a paste - but on laptop, there are only two buttons on the trackpad.
But I found the solution - shift + left-click pastes! Hooray!
Shift-insert seems to work as well. Discovered it here:
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March 28th, 2006 on 1:55 pm
I usually end up right clicking the titlebar and drilling down in the menu to find the copy and paste commands… Or am I thinking of PuTTY?
Jeff
April 9th, 2006 on 8:29 pm
Hmm, I can’t remember the specifics of while running X under Cygwin, but click both buttons at the same time *should* work too…it does when I use a 2 button mouse on “native” X-windows…
April 12th, 2006 on 2:03 am
Hi There,
I am in new zealand and me and a few friends are trying to set up a Mesh network. We are going to use Friefunk firmware but on their website you have to download the files one at a time which will take years. Do you know where I could get all of these all at once or in one zip file.
Cheers
Craig