On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:16:46 +0100
a...@saar.de wrote:

> Please, in all your critique of X's mechanism in doing cut&paste
> remember, that all this worked quite well until around 2000, when
> (mostly) KDE and Gnome started to try to make Linux more and more
> like Windows and ignoring and sidelining established mechanisms.

That's not how I remember it. When I first started using Linux in 1998,
RH 5.0, with fvwm user interface, cut and paste sucked.
 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
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