(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: konsole Version: 1.0.1 (KDE 2.0) Severity: normal Compiler: gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) OS: Linux 2.2.16 i686 (compiled sources) using "select" button of xfontsel works fine for xterm KDE1-Konsole and others but not for the KDE2 Terminal Konsole. Cut&Paste of mouse selections however works fine even with KDE2 Terminal Konsole.
From man xfontsel: Clicking the left pointer button in the select widget will cause the currently selected font name to become the PRIMARY text selection as well as the PRIMARY_FONT selection. The X Window System® uses two separate clipboard buffers: the 'selection' and the 'clipboard'. Text is placed in the selection buffer by simply selecting it, and can be pasted with the middle mouse button. To place text in the clipboard buffer, select it and press Ctrl-X or Ctrl-C. Text from the clipboard buffer is pasted using Ctrl-V or by selecting Edit->Paste. ... There's three standard clipboards: The PRIMARY, SECONDARY and the CLIPBOARD. Another name for such a clipboard is "a selection". So you say "the CLIPBOARD selection". It does work in xterm...
% xclip -o -selection primary -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/
Not konsole specific, and this seems to be a xfontsel bug anyway: it doesn't list anything relevant in TARGETS, even though it supports XA_STRING
Is this wishlist item still important? It more then five years old, perhaps the feature is now implemented in konsole? Than we could close this entry.
Well it still doesn't work in Konsole. It may not be Konsole bug, but might as well leave it open.
This bug is five years old - if it is still important to the original author, they can reopen it.