[SOLVED] urxvt awkward copy paste behavior

Ok i have set up the copy/paste method for urxvt found here - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rx … _and_Paste
I installed the script from the AUR - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35526
and added the line to ~/.Xdefaults " and ran xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
but for some reason i still can not copy out of urxvt and into another application (e.g. firefox, pidgin, etc)
I am able to copy from urxvt and paste back to urxvt ... I can also copy from firefox and paste to urxvt but not from urxvt to firefox ... i am puzzled.
Last edited by murfMan (2011-03-27 12:54:10)

i just use Ctrl + Shift + C to copy from urxvt and middle mouse click to paste.
and I don't even have that AUR script that you linked to, installed. works out well for me.

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Urxvt and copy/paste-ing.

Howdy guys.
I'm new to arch, been loving it. Enjoying configuring (and learning) about the parts i need thus far.
This is a weird question though. Basically i'm using urxvt (seems popular, and so far i like it) as my terminal, but i have no idea how to say.... copy and paste from it?..
Basically i would like to cat a file, and copy certain sections from it, so i can post them in forums and the like. And also the inverse, be able to copy and paste lines from examples online into my configs.
So far i've kinda been putting the windows side by side and typing it (<--- not very efficient and very annoying!).
I'm using xmonad for a tiling manager and that's it, so if i need to install maybe an addon into Urxvt or Xmonad i need to know which one to hunt down XD.
Thanks

Yeah that or shift-insert seems to work for copying text from the clipboard to urvxt.
However how do i copy stuff from urxvt's terminal into another app?. Just selecting it seems to copy it for urxvt, but other apps don't seem to get this updated clipboard stuff (they will still copy i copied from them).
EDIT: okay you are right, it seems to work that way . Just weird and have to hit it a few times for the laptop to work with it. Is there a keyboard shortcut for the left+right click? (Shift-insert doesn't work in other programs)
Last edited by Mr Fix It (2010-04-21 10:30:04)

White Balance Copy / Paste Behavior: Absolute or Relative?

This is a question from a prior thread that I think got lost in the shuffle; thought I'd pull it into its own thread.
The question is basically when you copy the White Balance setting from one image and paste it into another, is the pasted setting an absolute value or a relative value?
For example... I import three RAW images, each shot with Auto White Balance.
Image #1 is a gray card and with a WB of 6500K.
Image #2 is a product shot with a WB of 6000K
Image #3 is a product shot with a WB of 6200K
Let's say I adjust the WB in Image #1 to 6400K - an adjustment of -100K from the "as shot" WB.
When I copy those WB settings from Image #1 to Images #2 and #3, will the target images get an absolute value of 6400K? Or an adjustment of -100K?
Would I have:
Image #1 = 6400K
Image #2 = 6400K
Image #3 = 6400K
... or ...
Image #1 = 6400K
Image #2 = 5900K
Image #3 = 6100K

If you do it with Copy and Paste it will be all of them at 6400K
If you do it with the arrows Quick Develop Panel, it will be relative.

Copy/paste error in Illustrator CC 2014?

Anyone experiencing any copy/paste behavior in AI CC 2014? When I copy objects from one Illustrator file and paste them into another, I get double the objects onto the canvas (from 2, 4, from 3, 6, etc.) ... and I do not have a trembling set of digits that causes my to paste multiple times in a millisecond. This only happens "here and there" BUT often enough to have me asking you all. Thank you.

si-bone,
You may try the list.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Copy & Paste Functioning Incorrectly

All of sudden, the copy & paste functionality within Dreamweaver has gone crazy. Each time I try to highlight some lines of code to copy to my windows clipboard, the entire file gets selected. Or if I am finally able to get to a couple lines of code selected, once I hit Ctrl + C the entire document gets highlighted and copied to the clipboard.
How do I fix this issue and revert back to normal copy & paste behavior?
All other windows apps work fine. This is only happening in dreamweaver.

Well the only way I have figured to overcome this is to do a "find" on any string immediately after downloading the document. For what ever reason that action relieves my mouse-drag and my directional keys from doing weird things. DW is a really nice tool

Urxvt non-latin copy-paste

Hello.
I've used tutorial from Archlinux wiki to get easy copy (ctrl+c) and paste (ctrl+v) in urxvt. The problem now is that urxvt can't paste non-latin characters correctly.
For example, I need to paste this to terminal:
Région parisienne
Guake terminal can render the above text correctly, while urxvt displays
RÃ©gion parisienne
The same error also happens with Japanese characters, although I can type directly Japanese to urxvt using ibus-anthy.
The copy-paste extension uses a perl plugin shipped with standard urxvt installation.

@Ranmaru;
already have it xD. I can't use middle click, no mouse and my touchpad's buttons are a bit off.
@Mr. Pedobear:
[hinagiku@alice-tan urxvt-clipboard]# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF8
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
[hinagiku@alice-tan urxvt-clipboard]# locale -a
C
POSIX
de_DE.utf8
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
ja_JP
ja_JP.eucjp
ja_JP.ujis
ja_JP.utf8
japanese
japanese.euc
ko_KR
ko_KR.euckr
ko_KR.utf8
korean
korean.euc
Should I set LANG to ja_JP? Even without Japanese locale, backslash is displayed as Yen sign in terminal and Qt apps.

Some general ?'s re: urxvt, copy/paste, etc.

I started using urxvt, and I just checked the manpage and what I believe is the section on keybindings was quite confusing for me. I am used to gnome-terminal's ctrl+alt+c/v for copy/paste, and just want to double check a few things.
1. In urxvt, highlight with either left/right mouse and which kb button/shortcut will copy? And what is the paste command in urxvt (above gnome-terminal combo doesn't work I just realized).
2. Doing it this way, I can only paste with middle mouse button, ctrl+v in FF for example doesn't paste it, and I am confused about why?
3. Can someone give me a fairly basic command/rundown for configuring/viewing keybindings in urxvt? I have checked the manpage like I said and it was a bit baffling.
Thanks folks I really want to learn it, appreciate any help to get me in the right direction with some basics

colbert wrote:Is it just separate clipboards and that's how it is?
Yes. As a matter of fact, clipboard managers such as Glipper allow for collection of copied items based on whether the items come from the Primary selection (highlight & middleclick) or the Clipboard (CTL+C & CTL+V, etc.).
See my post here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 26#p279226
(especially the link at the bottom) for more detailed info about the copy and paste implementation in X11.
By the way, I recently began using rxvt-unicode, and two things that I find require some adjustment are the use of the Primary selection for copy / paste (without the option for using the Clipboard) and no drag and drop support.
Because of urxvt's use of the Primary clipboard, I had to enable that feature in Glipper (which I normally have disabled), and it certainly leads to a lot of junk filling up Glipper's copy / paste list. Every time you highlight something whether you intended to copy and paste it or not, the item ends up in the list making it more difficult to cull out the items you really intended to re-use for copy & paste operations.
I guess everything has its pros and cons, and I'm still on the fence about whether the pros of urxvt outweigh the cons. I'm leaning towards keeping it for now.
Edit: grammar
Last edited by MrWeatherbee (2008-01-21 21:42:32)

Copy/paste - bug/odd behavior

I am getting an annoying behavior from the workshop IDE, when i do
copy/paste.
I often double-click a word and then press CTRL-C. I can do this as well
in workshop. But the behavior is VERY odd, when I do it with normal
working speed.
Say for example this code:
<code>
Line 1: String str = null;
Line 2: If ( str != null)
Line 3: str = "workshop is odd";
</code>
If I do double click and then CTRL-C on "str" in Line 3. Then my cursor
moves up to "str" in Line 1, and on the clipboard is the full Line 3.
Except from the movement of the cursor, a copy of the whole line I would
only expect from a triple-click and it should as a minimum mark the
whole line.
In this example it is not so bad, but if my line 3 was line 99, it gets
very annoying.
If I do it "slowly" it behaves correctly or as expected.
Is this expected behavior of IDE?? - Because this it definitely not my
expectation.

I doubt anyone can help without a screen shot of what you are seeing. Come back when you have one. In the meantime I would not worry, it is most likely some kind of encoding glitch. You don't have to "enable" a language to have it displayed on your screen, OS X automatically does that.

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

Copy and Paste Behaviors

I have to do the same animation to about 30 different objects (The 2D boxes need to rotate 90 degrees on the Y axis) in the project I am doing. Is there a way I can do one animation on one of the boxes and then apply it to the others via a simple copy/paste operation? I can then manually time them by moving the Keyframes in the timeline.
Any help would be appreciated.

Sure. Couple of ways. One would be to open the Keyframe Editor, make sure Show is set to Animated, and then select all the parameters and drag them to the Favorites folder in the Library. Keep the mouse held down and choose to save as one file. You can then simply drag this file onto any other layer in your project to apply the same animation. If you select all your target layers first, you can drag it onto all of them at the same time.

[SOLVED] Custom Copy & Paste Keyboard Shortcuts in Gnome3

I'm looking for a way to make custom keyboard shortcuts in for the copy and paste functions. Specifically, I want F1 to be Copy. F2 to be Paste.
(In the future, I'd love to be able to do more, like Find, Cut, adding in frequently used text phrases via one keyboard combo ... in ANY application.)
Why? Because I use a different keyboard layout, Dvorak. I'm sure other layouts have similar problems. The Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are all of a sudden two handed operations. Slows me down. I need a non-mouse (I'm aware of the middle-click option), one handed operation solution.
There's a solution I found for Windows, AutoHotkey. Lets me do this. No Linux alternative as far as I was able to find. The options in the System Settings for Keyboard shortcuts do not include the Copy, Paste, etc functions. I also tried xclip. Works for copy. Just not paste. I can't get it to paste into any X app. I've used every variation of xclip -o I could. It appears that xclip isn't made for this. Nor do any of the other clipboard-like packages appear to be for it either.
Any suggestions?
Last edited by HuckleSmothered (2013-01-15 13:29:06)

Found a solution!
xdotool
Nothing else needed. I just set up custom keyboard shortcuts in the Gnome3 system settings that utilize this command. "xdotool key ctrl+v" will paste. I have that set to F2. "xdotool key ctrl+c" set to F1.
It can type preset text as well, which I use a lot at work (not so much at home). " xdotool type "Hello world!" "

Fields don't recognize their value has changed when a copy/paste value in inputed

I'm having a minor hiccup with my copy and paste buttons.
I have check boxes that, when checked, make other fields visible. The copy/paste actions recognize when the check box value is 1 and paste accordingly in the new instance of the subform, however, the invisible fields do not become visible, despite the check box value being 1 in the new instance. I feel like I'm missing something simple....possibly something that forces the scripting within the check box field to run since it is not recognizing that it's value has changed? If I manually click the check box in the new instance, the scripting works and the invisible fields become visible so I know its not an issue with creating new instances.
Any suggestions will be appreciated...I am new to this...
Scott

Still interested in solving this issue....anyone? please?

Can i remap a button on the keyboard? (trying to support copy/paste on mac)

my app runs cross-platform, and on the mac os x, copy/pasting is accomplished via ctrl+c/v, when the native os wants to use cmd-c/v. (ie in order to copy from a browser and paste into my java app, the user would have to press cmd-c to copy from the mac environment and then ctrl-v to paste into the java environment.)
i'd like to have copy/paste behave the way mac users are expecting (pressing cmd vice ctrl). at the moment, my app supports OS functions like cmd-w (close window), cmd-q (quit), and cmd-h (hide) via a few import classes from apple. they neglect to provide the same support for copy/pasting.
so. how can i init my java environment so that if a user presses the cmd key, java behaves as if they are pressing the ctrl key?
thanks!

ok, tested it. seems that under metal and the L&F i'm using (which is based on metal as far as i know), pasting is accomplished via ctrl-v.
if i set the L&F to the system L&F while running in a mac os, pasting is accomplished via cmd-c (meta-c?).
so that's that.
i asked google for help with the shortcutKeyMask, and this turned up on an apple site:
Accelerators (Keyboard Shortcuts)
Do not set menu item accelerators with an explicit javax.swing.KeyStroke specification. Modifier keys vary from platform to platform. Instead, use java.awt.Tookit.getMenuShortcutKeyMask to ask the system for the appropriate key rather than defining it yourself.
When calling this method, the current platform�s Toolkit implementation returns the proper mask for you. This single call checks for the current platform and then guesses which key is correct. In the case of adding a Copy item to a menu, using getMenuShortcutKeyMask means that you can replace the complexity of �The Contents of an Application Bundle� with the simplicity of Listing 2.
Listing 1 Explicitly setting accelerators based on the host platform
JMenuItem jmi = new JMenuItem("Copy");
    String vers = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();
    if (s.indexOf("windows") != -1) {
       jmi.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_C, Event.CTRL_MASK));
    } else if (s.indexOf("mac") != -1) {
       jmi.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_C, Event.META_MASK));
Listing 2 Using getMenuShortcutKeyMask to set modifier keys
JMenuItem jmi = new JMenuItem("Copy");
jmi.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_C,
    Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getMenuShortcutKeyMask()));
The default modifier key in Mac OS X is the Command key. There may be additional modifier keys like Shift, Option, or Control, but the Command key is the primary key that alerts an application that a command, not regular input follows. Note that not all platforms provide this consistency in user interface behavior. When assigning keyboard shortcuts to items for menu items, make sure that you are not overriding any of the keyboard commands Macintosh users are accustomed to. See Apple Human Interface Guidelines for the definitive list of the most common and reserved keyboard shortcuts (keyboard equivalents).
okay... but uh... i don't quite get it. seems that this Listing 2 solution might work, but a) this is for a menu and b) i'd like this to be a global setting if at all possible. my concern is when i use something like this:
JOptionPane.showInputDialog(jframe,
                                          "please enter some text",
                                          "input dialog",
                                          JOptionPane.OK_OPTION);i want this to be paste-able too!
thanks!

Feature Request: Disable target tabs setting destination for copy paste

It might have seemed like a good idea at the time but pasting to the targeted layer causes way more problems than it solves. If for instance if I have 10 video tracks which is quite common and wanted to copy and paste a clip to track 10, I have to turn off the target buttons on all 9 tracks below to do that. I do know about option drag which works but sometimes if you're zoomed out you can't get a hold of the clip you are trying to copy. Also I may need one of those layers to help me copy to the right time but now next edit function doesn't stop on them anymore.
What is important is being able to select which tracks you want PPro to stop at when you hit the next edit keys. For instance if I'm doing a color pass I don't want to stop on audio edits or gfx edits. So If I go through that whole process of turning these things off just to clone a clip I then have to turn them all back on. IMO it doesn't make sense to share these two functions with the target buttons and it's just too tedious in the first place to use the target buttons to set paste destination.
What I think would make sense would be an option that says copy paste follows target selection or copy paste to same layer. Then the target buttons would mainly effect which media in your timeline you want to focus on which is way more important IMO. This could also be done with an extra keyboard function. IE paste to same track or paste to targeted track and have both functions available.
Also I think you should have the option of stopping on the ins and outs with the next edit buttons. It's very common to use an in or out as a quick marker for a point in the timeline where there isn't an edit yet.

Yes I know about alt dragging. Not so great to copy a one second clip in an hour long seq way down. That's the point of it. As it is now it will likely copy to a different track then you want it to so you have to go over and start clicking all kinds of buttons to get the thing to not over write something and maybe / probably all off or all on for the target buttons is nothing close to what you need and you had the buttons how you wanted in the first place. And after you paste you have to click more buttons to set that up again.
So for one: this method of targeted copy / paste is not efficient at all, and two: sharing two totally different functions for the target buttons is not a good idea. A very simple fix is to provide the option of copy / paste to same tracks.
This is an opportunity to do it better than FCP because FCP would copy and paste to the same tracks but it had very bad control over which edits the program stopped on using the next / prev edit keys. It's much more efficient to only stop on the video edits and usually one or two tracks when doing a color pass. In FCP you had to disable the audio tracks to get it to ignore them so that you're not pushing the up and down buttons 5 times more than necessary but then you couldn't hear the audio. When you're doing color you want to hit the button once and be on the next shot. With my suggestion you get to focus on exactly what you want and copy / paste isn't a button-fest. This is like golf. Fewer strokes wins!

Problems doing copy/paste from Flash to Illustrator

This is a problem I've had since Flash 8: when doing a
copy/paste from Flash to Illustrator (on Windows), there's extreme
degradation of the artwork, sometimes to the extent that no actual
art is even copied. All the curves seem to be approximated with
straight line segments, but at some point it just seems to give up
even trying, leaving an unidentifiable blob for most of the object.
As I said, sometimes it doesn't even copy anything at all -- all
that shows up after pasting into Illustrator is an empty group.
The weird thing is that this process worked fine in Flash MX
2004. What could possibly have changed? I was sure with CS3 it
would be fixed, but it wasn't. I haven't tried Illustrator CS4 yet,
but copying from Flash CS4 to Illustrator CS3 produces the same
problem.
I've seen a few other reports of this problem in other
forums, but I've encountered it on every install of Flash and
Illustrator I've tried (admittedly, all Windows machines, but three
or four different ones, both XP or Vista). Can anyone here confirm
that this problem exists or doesn't exist on their computer? To
test it, create a piece of art with plenty of curves and several
colors in Flash, then copy and paste it into an illustrator
document.
If this problem is as widespread as my experience seems to
indicate it is, why hasn't it been fixed in two major revisions of
the software? Is Adobe even aware of it? If not, how can I let them
know? I'm getting majorly sick of having to deal with it.
Illustrator used to be a much larger part of my animation process,
but now I can't use it how I really want to because of the bad copy
and paste functionality.
-David

Hi,
The integration between Flash CS3 and Illustrator means you
can copy objects from Illustrator to Flash and i think if you copy
from Flash to illustrator or Photoshop, you would not get a good
results.
You can solve your problem by exporting your Flash work as
.AI.
Your idea about the ability to copy from Flash to Illustrator
is a good idea although Illustrator can not read some of the Flash
imported information correctly. But it is still a good enahcement
idea. There is a link where you can add suggestions but I do not
remember it and I am replying using mobile, so my browsing
capabilities is limited.
I will try to post the link here when I got to my back normal
connection
Thanks alot!!

[SOLVED] urxvt awkward copy paste behavior

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