Linux emulation of Sun Copy and Paste keys

[Johannes N Blouwer]

Hi all

I am using Linux on a PC as a replacement for Solaris on a Sparc machine.
Cadence does not support Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V for copy and paste. On the Sun
machines there are ten keys to the left of the main qwerty area that has
dedicated Copy, Cut and Paste keys.

Can anybody tell me how to emulate these keys on a PC keyboard?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
JNB

 

[gennari]

On my computer, if I highlight the text that I want to copy and click the
right mouse button at the paste location it usually works. It might depend
where you are copying to/from though. I think Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is a Windows
thing, but there might be a way to get that functionality with other keys or
by remapping the keyboard. Try Alt-C and Alt-V and see what that does.

Frank

"Johannes N Blouwer" <jnb@linux.local> wrote in message
newsan.2004.06.08.15.36.13.635070@linux.local...

Hi all

I am using Linux on a PC as a replacement for Solaris on a Sparc machine.
Cadence does not support Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V for copy and paste. On the Sun
machines there are ten keys to the left of the main qwerty area that has
dedicated Copy, Cut and Paste keys.

Can anybody tell me how to emulate these keys on a PC keyboard?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
JNB

 

[Johannes N Blouwer]

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:46:11 -0700, gennari wrote:

On my computer, if I highlight the text that I want to copy and click the
right mouse button at the paste location it usually works. It might depend
where you are copying to/from though. I think Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is a Windows
thing, but there might be a way to get that functionality with other keys or
by remapping the keyboard. Try Alt-C and Alt-V and see what that does.

Frank

"Johannes N Blouwer" <jnb@linux.local> wrote in message
newsan.2004.06.08.15.36.13.635070@linux.local...
Hi all

I am using Linux on a PC as a replacement for Solaris on a Sparc machine.
Cadence does not support Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V for copy and paste. On the Sun
machines there are ten keys to the left of the main qwerty area that has
dedicated Copy, Cut and Paste keys.

Can anybody tell me how to emulate these keys on a PC keyboard?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
JNB
Thanks Frank,

Highlighting and clicking the middle button (or wheel) on Linux does a
copy and paste but there are some occasions where I need to copy paths
from one window to another. Once a window is closed the highlight and
paste doesn't work anymore.

Linux desktops support a clipboard that allows text (and sometimes other
items) to be copied into a persistent paste buffer which can even survive
a restart of the session. It is clever but useless unless the aplications
support it, quite useless.

 

[Andrew Beckett]

Johannes,

I always tend to select the thing I want, and then use Shift-Insert to paste it
(this works with DFII too). You don't have to do Ctrl-Insert to copy it first -
that seems to be done automatically. Similarly, it doesn't need to stay
highlighted - you can select some text, and then click elsewhere, and Shift-Ins
still pastes it.

This is invaluable, because I only have a two button mouse (when using an
external mouse) - yes, I could use a three button mouse with my laptop, but I
keep forgetting to put one in the bag ;-(

Andrew.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:58:13 -0700, Johannes N Blouwer <jnb@linux.local> wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:46:11 -0700, gennari wrote:

On my computer, if I highlight the text that I want to copy and click the
right mouse button at the paste location it usually works. It might depend
where you are copying to/from though. I think Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is a Windows
thing, but there might be a way to get that functionality with other keys or
by remapping the keyboard. Try Alt-C and Alt-V and see what that does.

Frank

"Johannes N Blouwer" <jnb@linux.local> wrote in message
newsan.2004.06.08.15.36.13.635070@linux.local...
Hi all

I am using Linux on a PC as a replacement for Solaris on a Sparc machine.
Cadence does not support Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V for copy and paste. On the Sun
machines there are ten keys to the left of the main qwerty area that has
dedicated Copy, Cut and Paste keys.

Can anybody tell me how to emulate these keys on a PC keyboard?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
JNB
Thanks Frank,

Highlighting and clicking the middle button (or wheel) on Linux does a
copy and paste but there are some occasions where I need to copy paths
from one window to another. Once a window is closed the highlight and
paste doesn't work anymore.

Linux desktops support a clipboard that allows text (and sometimes other
items) to be copied into a persistent paste buffer which can even survive
a restart of the session. It is clever but useless unless the aplications
support it, quite useless.

--
Andrew Beckett
Senior Technical Leader
Custom IC Solutions
Cadence Design Systems Ltd

 

Hi Andrew,

With regards to the use of two button mouse, you could actually
enable 3-button emulation in the mouse configuration section of the
xf86config, which should then allow depressing both the mouse buttons
(simultaneously) to be recognized as a click on the middle mouse button.

Regards
Raman

Andrew Beckett <andrewb@DELETETHISBITcadence.com> wrote in message news:<kkdec0p4adnk3ptlb1tulhq2c48uoss7th@4ax.com>...

Johannes,

I always tend to select the thing I want, and then use Shift-Insert to paste it
(this works with DFII too). You don't have to do Ctrl-Insert to copy it first -
that seems to be done automatically. Similarly, it doesn't need to stay
highlighted - you can select some text, and then click elsewhere, and Shift-Ins
still pastes it.

This is invaluable, because I only have a two button mouse (when using an
external mouse) - yes, I could use a three button mouse with my laptop, but I
keep forgetting to put one in the bag ;-(

Andrew.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:58:13 -0700, Johannes N Blouwer <jnb@linux.local> wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:46:11 -0700, gennari wrote:

On my computer, if I highlight the text that I want to copy and click the
right mouse button at the paste location it usually works. It might depend
where you are copying to/from though. I think Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is a Windows
thing, but there might be a way to get that functionality with other keys or
by remapping the keyboard. Try Alt-C and Alt-V and see what that does.

Frank

"Johannes N Blouwer" <jnb@linux.local> wrote in message
newsan.2004.06.08.15.36.13.635070@linux.local...
Hi all

I am using Linux on a PC as a replacement for Solaris on a Sparc machine.
Cadence does not support Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V for copy and paste. On the Sun
machines there are ten keys to the left of the main qwerty area that has
dedicated Copy, Cut and Paste keys.

Can anybody tell me how to emulate these keys on a PC keyboard?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
JNB
Thanks Frank,

Highlighting and clicking the middle button (or wheel) on Linux does a
copy and paste but there are some occasions where I need to copy paths
from one window to another. Once a window is closed the highlight and
paste doesn't work anymore.

Linux desktops support a clipboard that allows text (and sometimes other
items) to be copied into a persistent paste buffer which can even survive
a restart of the session. It is clever but useless unless the aplications
support it, quite useless.

 

[Andrew Beckett]

Hi Raman,

I know that - in fact that's what I have set up - however, sometimes it's
difficult to press two at once without it being recognised first as a left or a
right mouse button press.

I generally find it easier to use shift->Insert instead.

Andrew

On 10 Jun 2004 08:18:11 -0700, raman@webquarry.com wrote:

Hi Andrew,

With regards to the use of two button mouse, you could actually
enable 3-button emulation in the mouse configuration section of the
xf86config, which should then allow depressing both the mouse buttons
(simultaneously) to be recognized as a click on the middle mouse button.

Regards
Raman

Andrew Beckett <andrewb@DELETETHISBITcadence.com> wrote in message news:<kkdec0p4adnk3ptlb1tulhq2c48uoss7th@4ax.com>...
Johannes,

I always tend to select the thing I want, and then use Shift-Insert to paste it
(this works with DFII too). You don't have to do Ctrl-Insert to copy it first -
that seems to be done automatically. Similarly, it doesn't need to stay
highlighted - you can select some text, and then click elsewhere, and Shift-Ins
still pastes it.

This is invaluable, because I only have a two button mouse (when using an
external mouse) - yes, I could use a three button mouse with my laptop, but I
keep forgetting to put one in the bag ;-(

Andrew.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:58:13 -0700, Johannes N Blouwer <jnb@linux.local> wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:46:11 -0700, gennari wrote:

On my computer, if I highlight the text that I want to copy and click the
right mouse button at the paste location it usually works. It might depend
where you are copying to/from though. I think Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is a Windows
thing, but there might be a way to get that functionality with other keys or
by remapping the keyboard. Try Alt-C and Alt-V and see what that does.

Frank

"Johannes N Blouwer" <jnb@linux.local> wrote in message
newsan.2004.06.08.15.36.13.635070@linux.local...
Hi all

I am using Linux on a PC as a replacement for Solaris on a Sparc machine.
Cadence does not support Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V for copy and paste. On the Sun
machines there are ten keys to the left of the main qwerty area that has
dedicated Copy, Cut and Paste keys.

Can anybody tell me how to emulate these keys on a PC keyboard?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
JNB
Thanks Frank,

Highlighting and clicking the middle button (or wheel) on Linux does a
copy and paste but there are some occasions where I need to copy paths
from one window to another. Once a window is closed the highlight and
paste doesn't work anymore.

Linux desktops support a clipboard that allows text (and sometimes other
items) to be copied into a persistent paste buffer which can even survive
a restart of the session. It is clever but useless unless the aplications
support it, quite useless.

--
Andrew Beckett
Senior Technical Leader
Custom IC Solutions
Cadence Design Systems Ltd

 

[Johannes N Blouwer]

Thanks Andrew, I forgot about Shift-Insert.

JNB

, 09 Jun 2004 17:13:47 +0100, Andrew Beckett wrote:

Johannes,

I always tend to select the thing I want, and then use Shift-Insert to paste it
(this works with DFII too). You don't have to do Ctrl-Insert to copy it first -
that seems to be done automatically. Similarly, it doesn't need to stay
highlighted - you can select some text, and then click elsewhere, and Shift-Ins
still pastes it.

This is invaluable, because I only have a two button mouse (when using an
external mouse) - yes, I could use a three button mouse with my laptop, but I
keep forgetting to put one in the bag ;-(

Andrew.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:58:13 -0700, Johannes N Blouwer <jnb@linux.local> wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:46:11 -0700, gennari wrote:

On my computer, if I highlight the text that I want to copy and click the
right mouse button at the paste location it usually works. It might depend
where you are copying to/from though. I think Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V is a Windows
thing, but there might be a way to get that functionality with other keys or
by remapping the keyboard. Try Alt-C and Alt-V and see what that does.

Frank

"Johannes N Blouwer" <jnb@linux.local> wrote in message
newsan.2004.06.08.15.36.13.635070@linux.local...
Hi all

I am using Linux on a PC as a replacement for Solaris on a Sparc machine.
Cadence does not support Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V for copy and paste. On the Sun
machines there are ten keys to the left of the main qwerty area that has
dedicated Copy, Cut and Paste keys.

Can anybody tell me how to emulate these keys on a PC keyboard?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
JNB
Thanks Frank,

Highlighting and clicking the middle button (or wheel) on Linux does a
copy and paste but there are some occasions where I need to copy paths
from one window to another. Once a window is closed the highlight and
paste doesn't work anymore.

Linux desktops support a clipboard that allows text (and sometimes other
items) to be copied into a persistent paste buffer which can even survive
a restart of the session. It is clever but useless unless the aplications
support it, quite useless.

 

[Harald Neubauer]

Hi,
this looks very interesting.
Since changing from Sun to Linux, i got most of the (Sun)keys back to
work.
Open,Quit,Front,.. But i didn get cut, copy, paste to work. Working
with cadence i usally copied things in the buffer, then select
something else and overwrite. Unfortunatly this is not possible with
the mouse buffer, because selecting what should be overwritten sets
the mouse buffer.
I can get this to work for xterm by using the following in .Xdefaults

XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override \
<Key>SunAudioRaiseVolume:select-set(CLIPBOARD)\n\
<Key>SunPowerSwitch:insert-selection(CLIPBOARD)

Is there something similar for cadence?
Regards, Harald

I already tried something like:
*Text.translations: #override\
<Key>SunAudioRaiseVolume:
copy-clipboard()\n\
<Key>SunPowerSwitch: paste-clipboard()
*TextField.translations: #override\
<Key>SunAudioRaiseVolume: copy-clipboard()\n\
<Key>SunPowerSwitch: paste-clipboard()



Andrew Beckett <andrewb@DELETETHISBITcadence.com> wrote in message news:<71mhc012ru9mth3b0jn4i2ubmcnttupmru@4ax.com>...

Hi Raman,

I know that - in fact that's what I have set up - however, sometimes it's
difficult to press two at once without it being recognised first as a left or a
right mouse button press.

I generally find it easier to use shift->Insert instead.

Andrew