On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:11 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 20:32 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 18:35 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 10:16 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > > > Evo doesn't seem to integrate itself with the clipboard like all other
> > > > apps I use.  That is, I need to leave mail open in a window to copy
> > > > parts of it to somewhere else.  Say, I select a link/address from within
> > > 
> > > I've done this loads of times under gnome and it works. Perhaps it's a
> > > XFCE issue?
> > > 
> > > Do you have a 3rd mouse button? try selecting the text and using the 3rd
> > > mouse button to paste
> > 
> > He's probably using the popup window mail viewer, which does need the
> > original window to be around at past time, since it is implemented using
> > selections.
> 
> _He_ is :-)  And, if this an explanation of why it's not working then I
> consider that a serious flaw/bug in Evo in that it is not integrating
> with the clipboard in a way consistent with every other GUI app I have
> ever used.  The premise is that all data copied to the clipboard is not
> purged from there by simply closing the window from which that data came
> - it needs to stay there until purged by replacing it with another
> selection or shutting down X.

*yawn*

> Should I file a bug on it, then?

Sure, if you want.


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