Le jeudi 21 juillet 2005 à 10:48 +0800, Gavin Chester a écrit :
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:10 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 20:51 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 18:35 +0800, Ow Mun Heng 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?
> > > 
> > > Perhaps.  It's that sort of feedback that I was hoping to get to see if
> > > it affected anyone else.
> > 
> > If you want feedback, I just tried it.  Same behaviour here, ie. I
> > cannot paste from evolution if I've closed the window I copied from.
> > 
> > evolution 2.2.3, gnome 2.10, Xorg 6.8.2
> 
> Iain, I presume you meant to post your addition to the thread
> (immediately above) to the list and not just to me?  Anyway, it warrants
> being in the thread on list :-)
> 
> Thanks for the confirmation, combined with comment by NotZed, it is
> appearing like Evo was not built with clipboard integration implemented
> consistent with other apps.  Shutting the window from which the text was
> copied should _not_ purge the clipboard.  This has caused me annoyance
> on _so_ many occasions that I finally started this thread :-(
> 
> Unless I hear a good rationale not to, I'll file this a bug in a few
> days time - presuming that's the best way to have it given attention.

This is a limitation caused by X Window clipboard (or selection)
implementation. It is not specific to Evolution.

I think there are workarounds for that in gnome-settings-daemon from
GNOME 2.12 (and KDE has probably a similar daemon to workaround it in
klipper).
-- 
Frederic Crozat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mandriva

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