On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 06:11:41PM +0100 or thereabouts, Ted Harding wrote:
SuSE program, just press down the wheel on your mouse (third button), and it will paste, just like always.
It wasn't quite straightforward though. What you say is basically what I'd been trying; then I did exactly what you said and it still didn't seem to work (clicking on the taskbar label to bring up the xterm I wanted to paste into, which was "behind" the VMWare window on the same desktop).
However, I'm using KDE and this has peculiarities ...
So I tried again, since I trust you :). What I found was that if I Hee, hee, good, I have a bridge for sale too <g>
a) had the Linux "copy-to" xterm in a different desktop (say #2) from the desktop (say #1) which had the VMware window with Win98
c) ** moved the cursor off the WMWare window in desktop #1, and used Ctrl-TAB to get to desktop #2,
OR
d) ** clicked on "2" desktop button to get to desktop #2, bringing the xterm there into "focus"
e) and THEN pressed the middle button to paste, then it worked.
I think the key is that clicking around on windows in the desktop containing VMWare somehow confuses the system.
Ted, by any chance are you using VMW in full window mode. The reason why I ask, is that I do not use it in that mode, and I have had no problems with pasting into the same desktop. It seems to paste into any application that I choose, VIM, Xemacs, xterm, Eterm, Wordperfect, gedit etc., I just use Alt+Tab to focus on what I want to paste into. Just a thought. -- Best regards, Gary