Subj : Re: Syncterm and the Clipboard
To   : Dallas Vinson
From : Dan Clough
Date : Sat Apr 11 2026 03:04 pm

-=> Dallas Vinson wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 DC> You're doing something wrong. To prove that, I just logged into SESTAR,
 DC> and successfully pasted into a "test" message from all varieties of
 DC> external editors available (two flavors of SlyEdit, and FSEditor).

 DC> I did that by right-clicking my mouse in the text entry area, after
 DC> getting the content I wanted to paste into my clipboard. One way to get
 DC> the content into the clipboard is to simply drag/highlight the text
 DC> somewhere on the screen (even outside the BBS) and BAM! it's in the
 DC> clipboard. Then, as described above, just right click in the message
 DC> entry area, and BAM! it's pasted in there. Could not be easier.

 DV> I don't know dude, I've tried hitting ever button on my mouse and all
 DV> it ever gives me is either a space or control codes, never my document.

 DV> I'm running SyncTERM 1.7 Debug (Feb 7 2026) -X11

 DV> This was the latest version I was able to find.
 DV> Running on Linux Mint 22.3

It's worked for me on any/all versions of SyncTERM that I've ever tried.  
I'm currently using v1.8rc2 which is available here:

https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/   ("Download" button near top of page)

<SHRUG>



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