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putty package

  1. Bug #116165
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Comment 1 for bug 116165

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: Cannot copy and paste from putty to other applications

This is probably just the usual difference between the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections in X, which occasionally causes confusion; basically, after selecting text in PuTTY, you always need to paste it into other applications using middle-click, never with Edit->Paste. See http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html for more discussion on this.

It would be nice if PuTTY had some way to copy text to the CLIPBOARD selection, all the same. This is sort of what's noted in the upstream paste-semantics wishlist entry (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/paste-semantics.html); note that the mouse-handling option mentioned at the end of that entry is only available on Windows.