On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:38:54AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:31:56PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > I've got Gnome set up as my default GUI on my new DNS
> > server. (Seems much improved over the older RH8 version.)
> > But how do I paste things? Clicking with first/third mouse
> > buttons designate the string or area I want; it should be in
> > the buffer. But the middle button (oR first&third) buttons
> > don't paste.
> >
> > The right mouse button pops up small rectange with a "Paste"
> > area, but this doesn't work.
>
> If it doesn't work the X-windows way, then it probably works more like
> the way it does in windows: use the left mouse button to select the
> text, then right click to get a popup menu which should have 'cut' and
> 'copy' entries. Select whicher you require. Then left click to move
> the cursor to the insert point, right click to bring up the menu and
> select paste.
>
> You may also find that you can select the area, then left mouse down
> on the selection and drag to where you want it to go. (Which is a
> feature of OpenOffice that I personally hate because I want left mouse
> to *always* select text.)
>
> It's possible that you may have difficulty cut'n'pasting between
> applications that use different paradigms -- there may be more than
> one cut-buffer under the hood as well.
>
Ah, so that's how OO 'paste' works. :-) (I've stumbled around
with the program learning to move/copy/paste. My fingers are
stuck in X-window mode... .)
In Gnome, things highlight with a swipe or left-right click.
I've used the right-click popup -> Paste. I was copying a
command from one xterm to another. Nada. I also tried copying
a few paragraphs of text across files in diff't xterms. SAme
joy: none.
(Hard to believe that Gnome wouldn't have built in the option...
but then: Oh *well*).
thanks!
gary
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