On Die, 2002-11-26 at 17:29, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > On 26 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >whenever I try to paste large amounts of text (>10000 bytes), e.g. from > >an editor (irrelevant which one I use) to a browser (also doesn't matter > >which browser I use), I get big problems. It doesn't matter if I use > >PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD, the pasted text just doesn't arrive. In Mozilla I > >just get a long delay and nothing happens, in Konqueror even stranger > >things happen, such as random characters appearing in the paste area. I > >also get the "random characters" effect in Opera after some testing. The > >only thing that tends to work well is pasting within the same > >application. Some applications even lose their clipboard contents when > >closed.
> What distribution and version are you using? I know there are strange > artifacts with Red Hat 8.0 where "emdash" and accented characters like > the French accent acute will prevent proper cut-n-paste. Happens both in Debian Woody and SuSE 7-8.0. Normal clipboard operations work, just large text causes lots of problems. I would be very surprised if the same operations that don't work on my system (e.g. copying 10000 bytes from gvim to Mozilla) work on yours. Regards, Erik -- FOKUS - Fraunhofer Insitute for Open Communication Systems Project BerliOS - http://www.berlios.de _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
