xterm copy to PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD independently

I want to be able to use both selections in xterm.

I would like selecting text and using middle click to copy and paste to and from PRIMARY.

I would like Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V to copy and paste to and from CLIPBOARD.

With no changes to Xresources, xterm seems to use PRIMARY for selection and middle click copy/paste.

I've added the following to my Xresources:

XTerm.vt100.translations: #override \n\
    Ctrl Shift <Key>C: copy-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\
    Ctrl Shift <Key>V: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)

Pasting is working how I want - I can use middle click to paste PRIMARY and Ctrl+Shift+V to paste CLIPBOARD. However copying isn't working - whenever I highlight text, it's being copied to both PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD.

How can I achieve what I want?

Details: Ubuntu 17.04, xterm version 324

Tom

Posted 2017-12-22T15:46:07.083

Reputation: 123

You're probably getting caught by this line: <BtnUp>:select-end(SELECT, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\ – Thomas Dickey – 2017-12-22T22:47:53.497

@Tom Did you figure it out? I can reproduce the issue. – finefoot – 2018-06-18T21:16:59.177

@ThomasDickey Wouldn't this only be the case if selectToClipboard: true and therefore SELECT=CLIPBOARD? – finefoot – 2018-06-18T21:24:36.973

no - if he'd set selectToClipboard true, then both calls would go to CLIPBOARD – Thomas Dickey – 2018-06-18T22:31:54.973

@ThomasDickey Okay, but why would SELECT be CLIPBOARD then? Why does the line matter, which you quoted above? :-/ – finefoot – 2018-06-18T23:36:37.963

His example does that, without using SELECT. My comment pointed out where the program was copying to PRIMARY. – Thomas Dickey – 2018-06-19T00:01:04.787

@ThomasDickey So as soon as a selection is being made, there is no way to circumvent it being copied to PRIMARY? Using an empty parameter <BtnUp>: select-end() did copy it as well. – finefoot – 2018-06-19T05:56:58.540

@ThomasDickey Actually, adding <BtnUp>: select-end() to OP's code does make it not copy to PRIMARY at first (with selecting only), but CTRL+SHIFT+C still seems to copy to both CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY. – finefoot – 2018-06-19T06:10:37.197

Unfortunately I never found a solution, instead I have scrapped xterm in favour of termite, where this problem doesn't exist. – Tom – 2018-06-19T09:04:46.047

xterm copy to PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD independently

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