PRIMARY clipboard paste

[Laszlo Papp]

Hey,

You probably misunderstood me. Shift+insert works like a charm, but I
cannot paste a text selected in other application by ctrl+c!

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:21, Laszlo Papp <djszapi at archlinux.us> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> URxvt.keysym.M-C-v:         command:/usr/bin/xclip -selection clipboard -o
>> This is in my ~/.Xdefaults file, but I cannot paste into urxvt from
>> outside. What do I do wrong ? There are perl script solutions, but I
>> do not prefer them, I would like to get it done from a simple config
>> file and not to deal with perl scripts. Thank you in advance!
>
> From my reading of `man 1 urxvt', it would seem that your attempt
> isn't even correct.
>
> Also, you are attempting to read from the XA_CLIPBOARD selection
> rather than the XA_PRIMARY selection. If you actually want to read
> from the XA_PRIMARY selection, then try the already defined
> `Shift-Insert' keysym (I've noticed that the mouse cursor must be
> inside the rxvt-unicode window for this to work though, which I think
> is a bug in something).
>