[SOLVED]Lightweight terminal emulator with modern copy & paste support

I'm currently using xterm, but I'd like to use a lightweight emulator that allows me to use modern clipboard instead of old-school buffer. To be more specific, I'd like to use Ctrl+Shift+c for copying and Ctrl+Shift+v for pasting instead of copying by text-selection and pasting with Mod4+middle click.
Last edited by Camus (2011-10-14 19:51:13)

I think middle mouse click is enough for pasting, no need for Mod4.
Have you tried e.g. autocutsel https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=22682 ? You can bind it to some key combination and maybe get what you want this way.

Similar Messages

[Solved] Most Lightweight Terminal Emulator?

I'm currently using simple terminal from suckless.org. It is the most lightweight terminal emulator I could find. I use it with a combination of evilwm, the most lightweight window manager (besides tinywm). Does anyone know of a terminal emulator that is more lightweight terminal emulator then simple terminal?
Last edited by shoober420 (2014-07-31 16:55:32)

I saw your post from early 2013 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1213397 and it may depend on how exactly are you launching your terminals. urxvtd uses 10-40 MB, depending on the weather, I guess.
# ps_mem
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
116.0 KiB + 54.0 KiB = 170.0 KiB atd
168.0 KiB + 40.5 KiB = 208.5 KiB gpm
160.0 KiB + 50.5 KiB = 210.5 KiB acpid
148.0 KiB + 72.5 KiB = 220.5 KiB vnstatd
192.0 KiB + 77.0 KiB = 269.0 KiB systemd-resolved
172.0 KiB + 129.5 KiB = 301.5 KiB xinit
172.0 KiB + 138.5 KiB = 310.5 KiB dwmst
228.0 KiB + 132.0 KiB = 360.0 KiB dbus-launch
292.0 KiB + 150.0 KiB = 442.0 KiB startx
336.0 KiB + 289.0 KiB = 625.0 KiB dwm
324.0 KiB + 342.0 KiB = 666.0 KiB su
624.0 KiB + 84.5 KiB = 708.5 KiB systemd-logind
636.0 KiB + 80.0 KiB = 716.0 KiB systemd-networkd
936.0 KiB + 135.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB systemd-udevd
716.0 KiB + 435.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB (sd-pam)
516.0 KiB + 708.0 KiB = 1.2 MiB dbus-daemon (2)
820.0 KiB + 417.0 KiB = 1.2 MiB login
968.0 KiB + 1.3 MiB = 2.3 MiB systemd (2)
4.0 MiB + 265.5 KiB = 4.3 MiB vim
2.7 MiB + 1.9 MiB = 4.6 MiB st (2)
7.5 MiB + 117.0 KiB = 7.6 MiB systemd-journald
8.4 MiB + 2.0 MiB = 10.4 MiB bash (10)
15.4 MiB + 2.4 MiB = 17.8 MiB urxvtd
89.7 MiB + 1.5 MiB = 91.2 MiB Xorg.bin
246.7 MiB + 5.0 MiB = 251.7 MiB firefox
399.4 MiB
=================================
I'm starting a thread about st in a moment, so we can discuss it there.
st is painfully slow with scrolling, but it may be because of my old hardware, dwm, fonts or something else. It certainly encourages you to learn vim's movement commands much faster ;-)

No copy/paste support before SDK 4.5

Hello,
I am posting this info for those that are willing to use Flex 4 in production environement:
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-25482
Yes, there is no contextual menu copy/paste support for TextInput (spark & mx) in spark Panel.
It appears that this bug is to be fixed in SDK 4.5 (correct me if I'm wrong), so it is possible that Flash Builder 4 will not be released before SDK 4.5, I just can't imagine Adobe releasing FB4 without such a basic feature in SDK 4. Or maybe they are going to recommand using SDK 3.5 with FB4...
What you think?
(hope this info helps someone)
regards,
Adnan

This is amazing !
I can't believe it is as simple
Do you think it is bullet proof workaround ?

Is there a terminal emulator with up- down output?

The idea just hit me but it's very hard to find something in search or on google (up and down are popular keywords...).
Here's my idea: the terminal I use (urxvt) and every other I heard of always outputs text sort of 'upwards'. Meaning: the prompt line is mostly on the bottom (and if you use a tiling wm like me it's mostly on the bottom of the screen), well except for new terminal windows of course.
I thought it would be cool if it could be on the top of the screen and the lines would be output towards the bottom of the window. Get it? If you would take a normal terminal window and reverse the lines order, this would be exactly what I need.
Quick example:
A normal terminal
[user@desktop]: ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 5 user user 4096 Jan 17 12:53 dir1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 30 Dec 23 17:14 a-link
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Feb 10 13:26 dir2
[user@desktop]: _
What I would like
[user@desktop]: _
drwxr-xr-x 5 user user 4096 Jan 17 12:53 dir1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 30 Dec 23 17:14 a-link
drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Feb 10 13:26 dir2
[user@desktop]: ls -l
Get it? Top -> down! So the prompt always gravitates toward the top of the window (provided enough output of course)
So anyway, back to the question: is there a terminal emulator that can do it?
Last edited by kosmiciatakuja (2011-03-14 10:47:55)

lives2evil wrote:Interesting idea!
But no, as far as I know there's no such things.
Any if you think it a little further, it's a trouble some idea. You may not notice with a simple "ls" command but with something more complex trouble will pop up every where.
How about you try and think how exactly will you implemented this idea.
Could be fun (Tried it).
Heh yea, i just did the same and came to the same conclusions.

Help with Syngery - copy/paste

I have two computer set up, windows and mac - they are sharing keyboard and mouse using syngery. I have the keyboad and mouse plugged into the windows box - I am using the mac keyboard.
When I try and copy/pate on a mac I get ç √ those funny things. I can use option c and v and get it to work. Just wondering if there was anyway to get the apple key to work? I tried changing the keys but the settings seemed to be ingored by syngery.
thanks.

I have the same set up with Synergy except I use a Windows keyboard (Dell specifically). I use Alt & C/V for cut/paste. It works nice since it is in the same place as the Apple key on an Apple keyboard.
I think if you want to use the Apple keyboard you should make the Mac the Synergy server and the Windows box the client. That is probably the only way the key mappings will work correctly,

Terminal emulator with fast font size changing (ctrl+mousewheel)?

I had that functionality once...: changing font size in terminal with ctrk+mousewheel, just like it's usually done in internet browsers.
Any good terminal emulators around that have that feature? I could swear I once had a terminal that did that, not sure which one though...

Thx, I'm going to try that. Any alternatives to compare?
edit: Hmmm... that thing doesn't really seem to work well out of the box. Uses keyboard shortcuts that seen only to work on english keyboard layouts (strg + [characters that would require shift key but don't work]) and also some like "strg+x for copy" which means I was unable to safe the terminals configuration file after editing it with nano :3) ... first impression: "doesn't look worth the effort to customize the config file".
Last edited by whoops (2011-12-07 08:13:23)

IPad 2 has slowed down copy paste is not working it hangs when filling in user name , please do something to solve all these problems ,Apple please wake up

IiPad 2 has slowed down with ios8 copy paste is not working it hangs when you try to fill up forms ,Apple engineers you need to do something fast

Apple engineers do not participate here. Have you updated to iOS 8.1 which was just release yesterday? Have you done any other troubleshooting? If you haven't start here.
Go to Settings>Safari>Clear History and Website Data
Now close all apps. In order to close apps, you have to drag the app up from the multitasking display. Double tap the home button and you will see apps lined up going left to right across the screen. Swipe to get to the app that you want to close and then swipe "up" on the app preview thumbnail to close it.
Next, reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.
If those three things made no difference, try this. Reset all settings. You will not lose any data, but most of the device settings will have to be entered in the settings app again. Settings>General>Reset>Reset all Settings.
If all of that fails, restore the iOS software. Backup your iPad before you restore, then restore the backup when you are done. If that still doesn't help, restore your iPad as new and start all over again. Most purchased content can be downloaded again at no charge as long as you use the same Apple ID and as long as the content is still available in the store.
Restore iPad to Factory Settings
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414
Download Past Purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519

How to copy/paste texts/images from webpages in iBooks Author?

Hi,
I want to copy/paste text/image contents from webpages with iBooks Author, somehow images can't be copied, only texts can be copied with copy/paste editing. Wonder if there are any ways to include images with simple copy/paste?
Tried to search iBooks Author help, could not find answers. Please help.
Thanks

Perhaps the people who spent a lot of time and money to produce the websites.....and who own copyright ...don't want anybody using their work without payment or credits. Have you contacted the websites owners to ask permission?
IF any person(s) use anything from websites without permission apart from being to lazy to email to request permission....could face a legal action if and when the sites owners fins out.
There is another her misconception that "free" websites and content on "social media" such as the dreaded FaceBook....can be used without consequence. Almost all "free" websites are common licence material - which requires permission and those who give permission do so only for personal or none profit reproduction.
i Use a blocking script on my websites which apart from preventing a right click...those who try are whisked off my website to the the UK copyright website page which explains my rights!
You may wish to check out your iBooks contract with Apple and read their warnings on use of others copyright material.
You could ..and should contact the websites...explain what you want to use and why....and ask them if they can supply media.

Is there a way to move (not copy/paste) files between HDs w/out command?

I use external HDs a lot, so I move files from the Mac HD to to these external HDS but I always have to delete the source file after the copy/paste process is done I know I can push the command key and move them but I use my mouse more then anything and I would like to not use the command key. I've tried to use automator but for some reason the action quits working after while so I need to redo it-which gets annoying, but so does having to constantly copy/paste everything. So is there a way to achieve move with out copy/paste and automator? If there is, could let me know what that little delightful technique is?

I use the following 3rd party cut/paste apps - CopyPaste Pro & iClip. Both you can use either the mouse or key commands.

A kind of a massive and involuntary "copy-paste" fenomena ocurred in my deskstopd

I get aware of this without noticed nothing extrange during my normal work.
I saw the content of a specific folder in my desktop , normaly I have in the desktop a lot. I knew this folder very well and it contained very few files. However this time It had a lot of files inside. After several minutes I realized that were copies of all the folders and files located in my Desktop. It seemed that all the files in the desktop were" copy and pasted" in that specific folder.
I inspected all the folders in desktop. The same fenomena ocurred in all of them.. This was a massive situation.
I created more folders. All of theme were born with the copy pasted files from the desktop. Creasy think is´n it ?
What could be happening ? I'm not a skilled user and this situation put me very nervous.
Is this a dangerous situation for my current work ? my computer ?

Oh, and what is very helpful:
The parent of an anchored object is a Character Object.
Example 1:
A text frame with an anchored object (the magenta square).
The text frame is selected.
If you ask for the count of characters in the text frame:
app.selection[0].characters.length;
The answer is "5"!
The anchor, that is indeed the anchored rectangle, is treated as a character.
If you select the anchored object and ask for its parent:
app.selection[0].parent;
The answer is "[object Character]".
To move such an anchored object without loosing its anchordness, you have to move the character.
In the above case, the character is characters[0] of the text frame. Or more precise, the characters[0] of texts[0] (all formatted text in the text frame) of the text frame. You also could go a step backward and say: in this case it's the characters[0] of texts[0] of the parentStory of the text frame
To move it somewhere else (e.g. to a cell of a table), you must move it to another Text object.
Every insertion point is a text object (like every character).
Example 2:
A table comes into play:
The text frame is still selected.
And the following code will move the anchored object (indeed the character) to the table:
var myTextFrame = app.selection[0];
var myTable = myTextFrame.parentStory.tables[0];
myTextFrame.characters[0].move(LocationOptions.AFTER, myTable.cells[0].insertionPoints[0]);
Situation after executing the snippet:
Hope that helps,
Uwe

Xmonad + dmenu + Xfce Terminal Emulator hangs at green box

Previously I had been using the Xfce Terminal Emulator with dmenu xmonad. Most recently it stopped working and starting exhibiting the following behavior:
If I launch "Terminal" through dmenu then the terminal launches but hangs before providing a prompt. It shows instead a madding green cursor box. The menu system is still active but it never seems to be able to execute a shell. Alternatively, if I launch mrxvt and then type "Terminal" it works correctly but displays the following warning:
(Terminal:7162): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Could not initialize inotify
Oddly, if I start a terminal with dmenu and then try to start another from mrxvt then they both hang with the green box. Close both down and suddenly mrxvt launched Terminals start working again.
Any ideas as to why Xfce Terminal isn't working with dmenu?

I never use terminal, but I gave this a try since I am running xmonad.
I get that empty but for a green cursor when I try to launch terminal from gmrun, but it works fine from dmenu.
I get an "Unable to load terminal preferences." if I try to run it from a urxvtc command line, but it launches just fine.
My hotkey works fine, but it is bound to urxvtc.
Last edited by llcawthorne (2009-11-24 02:59:07)

Editor - Cut, Copy & Paste styles

Using the package from http://www.calcom.de/eng/dev/cctxt.htm but it doesn't seem to work with cut, copy & paste styles
Still the cut, copy & paste styles should still work but not quite sure if its my IntroductionDocument class causing the problem or those methods. Attach is my working editor to download from:
http://home.pacific.net.au/~akhalil/editor/editor.zip
The problems is:
* When I cut text with bold and plain, the whole paragraph goes bold?
The bold text Introduction is the first word of the document but still
it shouldn't effect the whole paragraph.
* When I paste, loose the bold styles but get the remanining plain text fonts instead.
If you could help me out, I would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Abraham Khalil

Hi dhhyde,
If you are having issues with your cutting, copying and pasting items from your iPad, you may want to try some things to troubleshoot.
First, quit all running applications and test again -
iOS: Force an app to close
Next, I would try restarting the iPad -
Turn your iOS device off and on (restart) and reset
If the issue is still present, you may want to restore the iPad as a new device -
How to erase your iOS device and then set it up as a new device or restore it from backups
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

[SOLVED] Tmux in terminal emulator having strange effect on X session

Hello. I've searched about and googled for this problem for a while, but to no avail. The problem is this:
When in an X session, in the Awesome WM, when I fire up a terminal emulator (so far I tried lxterminal, xterm, urxvt and lilyterm), the console (from before the X session) appears with the X startup messages and it's stuck that way. I'm still in the WM however and the mouse shows. I just can't see anything past that console screen. I can't see any error messages thereon either.
When not in Awesome (and X), tmux starts up fine, and also when in Awesome and I run
sudo tmux
in the terminal emulators.
I first encountered this some time ago, using just lilyterm, but then I tried running tmux in lxterminal instead and it worked fine. Now this always happens, no matter the terminal. Right before this incident, I was doing some experiments with running a detached tmux session on login. I tried executing in .bash_profile, .bashrc, .xinitrc and .config/awesome/rc.lua. Since this started happening at some point, I'm not sure when, I tried some different files. Now I have removed what I put in them but this behavior keeps occurring. I've tried to make sure the $TERM variable is set right inside and outside tmux for some of them and
set -g default-terminal "screen/screen-color256"
in the .tmux.conf.
I sync my config files between my laptop and desktop so they have the same behavior, except on the desktop the console screen flashes momentarily and then all GUI programs have disappeared from the screen, leaving just bare Awesome. I can then start some more GUI programs again. If I try to start tmux again in another terminal emulator. I get the "nested tmux sessions" message.
I don't know if it matters, but using screen instead works as intended. Anyway, any help is appreciated. My tmux.conf is really just
set -g default-terminal "screen"
at the moment.
Last edited by m73 (2013-07-22 12:06:03)

Tried the same in Openbox instead of Awesome and I get the same behavior. I also made a tmux session before starting X and attached it in the terminal emulator afterwards. That worked, but when I try to make a new window in that session with Ctrl-b C, the same thing happens. So this happens if I try to make new sessions or windows as the current user in an X session. Listing and killing sessions works as intended.

Does iOS8.1.1 resolve problems with copy&past?

since previous releases of iOS8 I'm facing problems with copy&paste of url's and data betwen application on iPad2 and 4s .
does 8.1.1 solve those problems.

Paulus_2 wrote:
does 8.1.1 solve those problems.
There re are some who have reported it has, and then there are others who have reported it hasn't.
You might want to follow this methodology to update ...
Follow this procedure for a Troubleshooting Methodology ... basically reset to factory default condition -BUT- be sure to do the following methodically and also to follow the part with Apple Support!
First you want to make sure you have several backups of your data and done with a couple of "different" sources. Be sure to understand what data is backed up and what is NOT on iCloud Backup and iTunes Backup. Use a variety of methods for backup ... you might check into Dropbox, in addition to your Apple options.
Then turn off your desktop anti-virus software when using iTunes for this reset to factory default. After you do that reset, then leave your iPad in its factory default state and see how it operates then. If you encounter any problems in that factory default state, then take it to Apple Support, and let them know that you have just reset it to that state with iTunes and have not put any of your data back on and it is operating in this fashion (whatever the problem is) in that pristine state. Make sure you keep that trouble ticket number, because if it has to be escalated through Apple Support, you're going to find all communications tied in with that number. If the lower level help isn't able to help you, then escalate it to a higher level to examine the problem. Keep at it with that trouble ticket number until Apple Support arrives at a solution to that problem. Be methodical and keep at it.
On the other hand, if everything is okay with the factory default condition, then restore your backup. Some people have discovered that the problem resides in the apps or something in the restored backup. If that's the case, then it's going to be trying and difficult to find out which developer's app is causing you the problem. And ... it's true ... that a developer not following Apple's instructions and guidelines for his app can CAUSE YOU TROUBLE. This kind of thing does happen from developers, especially when a new system upgrade comes out, because some developers ignore what Apple tells them about changes coming, and what they do BREAKS SOMETHING.
This is a troubleshooting methodology that you are going through. See it through to the end.
Choosing an iOS Backup Method (Should I Use iTunes or iCloud to back up ...)
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5262
Back up and Restore your iOS Device with iCloud or iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766
iTunes: About iOS Backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946
Create and Delete iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch Backups in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946
iOS: Troubleshooting Encrypted Backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5162
Use iTunes to Restore your iOS Device to Factory Settings
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414

Can't get Typekit to work with localhost (also, another weird issue with copy+paste)

Hi!
I've searched through the other posts already, and I *think* I've tried all the solutions, but I still can't get the typekit fonts on my machine.
I'm trying to use the "orator-std" font. In the "kit editor", in the "kit settings -> kit settings" tab I have for name "localhost" (w/o quotes) and for domains just "127.0.0.1" (w/o quotes).
Then (AFTER saving the settings from that tab), I go back into edge animate, I start a new font by clicking that + sign next to "fonts", in the "library" tab. I set the "font fallback list" to ' "orator-std",sans-serif ' (w/ quotes, w/o single quotes), and then go back to the open browser and go to the "embed code", copy both lines of javascript, go back to edge animate, and... nothing. It won't let me change ANY text in this box anymore after the window loses focus. I have to press "cancel" and try again. So this time, I just type in the orator-std... blah blah, same as last time, but paste in the code successfully as it was already in the clipboard and I didn't need to make the window lose focus. Okay, so I click "Add font", and apply the font to my text. Nothing happens.
Huh... well the "Font's from T" picture is showing up in the bottom right of my screen, so that's odd. I go to preview in chrome, still ugly old sans-seriff there, also with the "Font's from T" logo in the bottom right.
I figure "okay, probably just takes a second... or a minute... or w/e like the message said." Well this was at least an hour ago, so something is still wrong.
I would love to just delete the font and start from scratch... maybe something got screwed up along the way and it would fix things to just start from scratch. Well... "sorry" says edge animate... can't let you delete that! In the "libarary" tab, there's only one font visible, it says "orator-std,sans-serif" (w/o quotes). If I right click it, the only option is "delete" and it's greyed out.
I tried doing one with arial instead of sans-serif just now, still not working, but everything shows up in arial now instead of sans-serif... so that's something I guess.
Apologies if this is just a simple problem that I'm just somehow not grasping. Please accept this legitimate bug report as payment... the er copy paste bug, I mean...
Thanks!
Trevor

Hi Trevor,
I'm sorry you ran into trouble here. Typekit can be used locally. However there are some necessary steps that if left out, will cause the fonts not to render. In order to use Typekit locally, you've got to:
1. Be running a local server when testing your site in the browser. You can tell if you're running a local server by the URL of the local site. If it starts with: file:// then you are just viewing the local file in a browser and not running it from a local server.
If the local URL starts with: http:// then you're running a local server.
2. The domain of your local server has to be part of the domain list in your Kit. So, if your local server uses: localhost, you'll need to add this to your Kit's domains.
I hope this helps. If you have any further questions, feel free to reach out to us directly: [email protected]
Cheers,
Benjamin

[SOLVED]Lightweight terminal emulator with modern copy & paste support

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for