Re: [gentoo-user] Still not feeling familiar with emerge

2010-01-19 Thread hkml
Hi Alan, thanks for your reply and sorry for the late response (I was kind of offline). Everything above this line is fascinating but completely unrelated to your post. Please omit such in future I just wanted to motivate that I didn't just install gentoo and then ask my questions immediately

[gentoo-user] Still not feeling familiar with emerge

2010-01-14 Thread hkml
Dear group, I'm using gentoo for more than three years now and using the gentoo packaging system in general is exactly what I expect from a packaging system. You just open a shell somewhere on your virtual desktop, start a process and the rest is done automatically (in general). But, when it

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-22 Thread hkml
Hi Group, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread hkml
Miernik wrote: No, read this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html Thanks for the link: now I know that my ideas of how copying works are close to reality. I will continue looking for a solution. If I find something, I will post it here. Cheers, Heinz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread hkml
Alex Schuster wrote: Klipper (the KDE clipbboard) has a setting to keep the content of clipboard and current selection separately. I thought this could only be used to force the behaviour you experence, but maybe it works the other way around for you and lets you disable it. Thank you for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread hkml
Bryan Whitehead wrote: X11 programs have a second way of copying and pasting text, so the first method is not a hack (sorry), however, many X11 applications do not bother with the first method. For example, xterm doesn't have an edit, copy, or paste on all flavors of unix - try using them in

[gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread hkml
Hi Group, I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that the clipboard content