Chris Worley wrote:
I've been using Unix since the 80's, and prefer X's left-button-drag-cut (or double or triple click) and middle-button-paste to WinDoh's, but, these days,
Same here ;-) > nothing seems to work.
I mostly use KDE, Konsole, Evolution, Firefox, and
> OpenOffice, and mostly just want to copy and paste > text between these apps.
Copy/paste within the same Konsole session seems to
> work properly, but, between apps is hit-and-miss. > I.e. I'll copy some text from an OpenOffice editor > (using left and middle mouse clicks), and paste into
a Konsole... and it takes a couple of tries before
> it pastes. Aggravating. I'm noticing a similar problem myself.
In years past, this worked seamlessly... but my
> last few revs of OpenSuSE (the only place where > I use a GUI) seem to have lost the ability to > cut and paste w/o multiple tries. And the multiple-clicks...needed...BUT NOT ALWAYS is annoying... if KDE just happens to be in the middle of changing the desktop jpg, sometimes the reason I'm not seeing the paste is because the CPU and X-server are bogged down...and then suddenly I get the paste mouse-click executed 2 to 4 times... Annoying as hell. I've never seen this sort of thing with any sort thing (dropping mouse clicks...or any user input, for that matter) in any Unix or Linux interface before...
I tried cutting a graphical section out of Acrobat.. and it said it had put it to the clipboard, but I could not paste into any app, including "gimp".
I've been resorting to right click -> copy right click -> paste :-(
Cut&paste within an app is not that helpful, we
> need to cut and paste between apps. Does X need > to "go back to the drawing board"? Well, I think you correctly identified the true location of the problem.... the X11 server. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
