Hi Gary, On 05-Aug-01 Gary wrote:
... with VMWare I can cut & paste from Linux to Win98 easily enough ... but I've not managed to get it working the other way ...
What's the trick?
Ted, If you highlight test in Word, hit Ctrl C for copy, switch to your SuSE program, just press down the wheel on your mouse (third button), and it will paste, just like always.
Thanks, Gary!
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
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
b) highlighted and did "copy" in Word
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.
OK, so now I know. Thanks, and Cheers.
Ted.
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