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corruptz0r

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From: Atlanta, GA

Registered: 2010-07-07

Posts: 63

How do I make Urxvt use my copy/paste keys?

I want my Urxvt to use Shift+Ctrl+C to copy text, and Shift+Ctrl+P to paste.

How can I make this happen?  I have been Googling for a while tonight and have seen people mention it can be done within .Xdefaults, but no examples.

Thanks in advance.

ber_t

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2010-03-10

Posts: 214

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Re: How do I make Urxvt use my copy/paste keys?

You'll need an perl extension for this. There are thousands on the net, like this one:
http://github.com/muennich/urxvt-perls/ … /clipboard
It requires xsel to be installed, which is in the official repos; enable it by simply copying it into /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/.

Then put the following in your .Xdefaults:

! ... means to append the value, if such an entry is already in your .Xdefaults:
URxvt.perl-ext-common: ...,clipboard
URxvt.keysym.C-S-c: perl:clipboard:copy
URxvt.keysym.C-S-p: perl:clipboard:paste

The Shift key often did not work in these bindings, you could also use Meta (M) instead, if that's the case.

vae77

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Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 75

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Re: How do I make Urxvt use my copy/paste keys?

I just use shit + ins to paste after select a text since I'm using zsh.

Last edited by vae77 (2010-08-03 22:17:40)

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