On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 14:50, Michel Clasquin wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2001 14:34, you wrote: > > I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and have a problem with Copy and Paste commands, > > they don't seem to work at all between applications and only > > occasionally within an application. The info copied does appear in the > > clipboard, but will not Paste. This is true of apps like Evolution and > > Sylpheed. > > You are probably trying to paste between KDE, Gnome and other X apps, > which can be a real pain in the ass, because they don't generally use the > same paste buffer (They could if they really wanted to...).
No, within the same applications, in this case Evolution or Sylpheed. In their defense, they're both in early development, BUT... > > BUT, 95% of the time, what you want to paste is just plain text. So try > this: select the text to be pasted with the mouse. Don't hit CTL-C. Move > the focus to (click with the mouse in) another window, but be careful not > to move the mouse with the button down and create a selection in the new > window. Hit the mouse *middle* button to paste the text in. If you have a > 2-button mouse, hit left and right button simultaneously. In a standard > installation you can even paste to and from terminals like this. ...THIS WORKS! Thanks for the tip. > > It takes about 5 minutes to get used to this, after which there will be > much slapping of foreheads and exclaiming "But this is so much easier than > windows!" I find cutting and pasting in windows intolerably clumsy now. > > For example, If I click on a URL in Kmail, it automagically opens it in > Konqueror, which is fine. But if I want to open it in Mozilla, I select > the address in Kmail, FIRE up Mozilla and middleclick the address into the > Mozilla's address edit box. > > Try it. You'll like it. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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