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Opera, Firefox has no kiosk option like Chrome gives it openly?
While using Chrome kiosk mode, i have problem with openbox desktop, its not doing correct for some javascript rendering. So i wanted to test opera and firefox but both does not support kiosk at all ...
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vi[m] read range of lines from another file
On Linux, editing file_B in vim I want to add line 10-25 from file_A. Example: One has a whole set of HTML-Documents with quite the same header and yes, one could create a template and start from ...
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emacs copy and paste
How can I copy from emacs and paste into another instance of emacs or else where?
If I do C-space, M-w, and then C-y, I can only paste in the open instance of Emacs. If I navigate to another Emacs ...
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A real non-“better touch tools” solution for select-to-copy on Mac OS X
I recently moved to Mac. I am missing my X11 copy-paste style.
I can't find a way to exactly emulate X11 behavior "select-to-copy", "middle-click-to-paste" globally on Mac OS X.
I am aware that this ...
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How to target multiple selections with xclip
When copying text to the clipboard, xclip provides several selection targets:
-selection
specify which X selection to use, options are:
"primary" to use XA_PRIMARY (default),
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Gnome: Make system text copyable
Here I use "system text" to refer to the text displayed in the GTK widgets (labels, menus, dialogs etc.)
I would like to be able to highlight and copy any system text. I am using a locale with a ...
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Copy text from one tmux pane to another (using vim)
I have two files opened in vim, each in one tmux pane. I would like to copy let's say 10 lines from one file to another.
How can I accomplish this not using the mouse's Copy -> Paste ?
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How do I detect a copy event in Finder?
I am trying to strip formatting from text copied from my Illustrator docs. Someone accurately pointed out to me that running pbpaste | pbcopy via command-line will perform this action on text in the ...
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emacs - paste text from clipboard without formatting
I am using Emacs 24 for MacOSX and having some problem with pasting code from clipboard to Emacs. The code that I selected usually already nicely formatted (with tab, ident, ...).
However, when I ...
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Emulate mouse cut'n'paste behavior in a test script
I've got a shell script which outputs shell commands which are supposed to be copy-pasted with the mouse from one terminal window to another (I can test it in the same window though). The output ...
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Pasting the content of xclip onto gedit [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Copy file to xclip and paste to Firefox
I would use the following command to copy the output of uptime to the clipboard:
uptime | xclip
Then I can paste the copied ...
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Copy file from commandline, paste into Gnome window or vice-versa
There are plenty of examples how to copy the "contents" of a file from command line with the help of xclip or xsel. What I am looking for is to copy a file from the command line and paste into the ...
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Pasting binary data into a Unicode terminal
I need to be able to paste binary data into a terminal. For some reason, every byte outside the ASCII range (0x80-0xff) is pasted as the same three byte sequence 0xef 0xbf 0xbd.
For example:
$ echo ...
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Copy paste problem on KDE
I've been extremely annoyed with this issue for a while. I'm using TeXMaker on KDE to write my class notes in LaTeX and I sometimes need to copy paste text from it to some other applications while ...
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Does a remote system accessed with SSH have a system clipboard?
According to wikipedia in the bash shell control+u
Clears the line content before the cursor and copies it into the clipboard
If I'm ssh'ed into a box and try that, the text certainly disappears ...
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Vim visual mode to system clipboard?
Using the vim text editor, I am looking for a method to copy content highlighted in visual mode to the system clipboard (i.e. I would then be able to Ctr-v that content say in a browser window).
Is ...
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How can I copy/paste data to and from the Windows clipboard to an OpenSuse clipboard using VNC?
I am connecting to a remote OpenSuse computer using VNC from Windows. On other Linuces that I've used over VNC, I can copy text between the remote machine and the local Windows machine using the ...
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What's the difference between pasting with middle mouse button, and Shift+Ins?
My middle mouse button pastes text I've highlighted.
Shift+Ins also pastes text, but sometimes it differs in what it pastes to what is pasted by clicking the middle mouse button.
What is the ...
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Copy and paste a file/directory from command line
Instead of using the following command:
cp {source file} {dest file}
I want to be able to copy a file into the clipboard, and paste it somewhere else, in another directory. something like this:
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How do I copy and paste text that's in a weird window (pictured here)?
The program is called ncview. I can drag and highlight the text inside, but not even Ctrl-C allows the text to be copied for pasting. Current distribution is a Debian distribution.
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Copy file to xclip and paste to Firefox
I'm coping file to xclip
cat file.txt | xclip
I'm pasting without problem with
xclip -o
When I want to paste it to Firefox with Ctrl+V it pastes old text (that shouldn't already be in the ...
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How to use keyboard instead of mouse middle-click for copy/paste? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Pasting X selection (not clipboard contents) with keyboard
Is there a shortcut for copy-paste under X? I'd like to use the keyboard for pasting.
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copy+paste between linux desktop and vmware player?
How can I copy+paste text between my linux desktop (GNOME Ubuntu 11.04) and the open vmplayer window running an ubuntu 64bit server terminal?
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How to copy text to xterm
How to paste text in a xterm? Now I can copy text from xterm to an outside application, like Firefox, by highlighting the text there. But I can not copy text from firefox to xterm. I am just normal ...
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Pasting X selection (not clipboard contents) with keyboard
I'd like to be able to paste the X selection using the keyboard. Currently I have to use the middle mouse button to do this.
I gather that faking a middle mouse button press is fairly easy to do, ...
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Copy-pasting in gnome-terminal
Can I configure it to allow:
select right-click to copy
right-click or ctrl-v to paste?
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Is there a convenient general way to “grab” the echoed result of a command in Emacs (of M-: or M-!)?
Sometimes, I want to insert the result of an Emacs command (that has been echoed in the echo area) to another buffer or another running X program. So, I'd like to put it to the kill-ring. What would ...
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Is there a user interface in Emacs allowing one to “grab” the buffer's filename conveniently?
It happens quite often that I want to use the path of the file opened in a certain buffer in Emacs (either the full path or the basename) in another place (a buffer or a different X program, say, a ...
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Avoiding pasting with the mouse wheel
I'm tired of having to copy and paste text using the the wheel of my mouse; the amount of dexterity needed is legendary. Anybody know of any kind of frankenmouse which has four buttons (one that ...
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Select/Paste Word-Wrap on X-Based Terminals
Is there a sure-fire method to cut & paste word-wrap on X-based terminals? That is, if I select, then paste via button-3, if the text goes to the end of the line and wraps, the paste assumes ...
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vim - but with scrolling, clickable text, and copy-paste
I like vim. I think touching mice is dirty. But sometimes when my hand is already on a mouse, it sure would be nice to be able to scroll the text or click a location in the text and have the cursor ...
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Emacs command to cut OR copy to system clipboard?
As a very new Emacs user, I've been using Ctrl+w and Ctrl+y to cut/copy and paste between buffers in Emacs. Is there a way to do the same thing so that not just Emacs, but the entire system, can have ...
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Simple terminal emulator that supports cut/paste with other programs?
Coming from Mac OS X, I've enjoyed being able to cut/copy/paste text to and from its built in Terminal application.
Now, I am planning to migrate to a tiling window manager like scrotwm, xmonad, ...
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GVim compiled from source opened via SSH -X does not copy paste on selection
I'm using SSH (with -X specified) from a Ubuntu box to a RHEL4 box and running GVim. It opens as expected in my local X, but the copy and paste via select doesn't work. I cannot select text in GVim ...
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vim auto indenting even after setting noai option
I am using vim 7.2 from putty terminal.
Even if I run set noai it seems vim still trying to indent code.
I am copying my code from Notepad++ to vim.
following is from Notepad++
and following what I ...
