Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?

2002-06-14 Thread Joshua James
I'd have to argue on the point of intuitive. I just spent 2 minutes trying to paste text from one email to another. It showed in my little clip board in the bottom right but I couldn't paste it using CTRL+V or the paste command in the edit menu. I could however paste it in KEdit. Weird.

Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?

2002-06-14 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 June 2002 01:04 pm, Joshua James did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Why is Ctl-V intuitive? Just because that is how Windows does it does not make it 'intuitive' I have better things to do with my time than figure out why

Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?

2002-06-14 Thread D. Olson
Whiles we're bitching about copy and paste, let me throw my anger in here too. Stupid Klipper doesn't work as expected all the time. Why is it that sometimes it doesn't pick up what I selected? And why is it that sometimes I select something, and it picks it up, yet in order to paste it, I

Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?

2002-06-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Fri 14 Jun 2002 23:03, D. Olson wrote: Whiles we're bitching about copy and paste, let me throw my anger in here too. Stupid Klipper doesn't work as expected all the time. Why is it that sometimes it doesn't pick up what I selected? And why is it that sometimes I select something, and

Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?

2002-06-14 Thread D. Olson
I only use CTRL+V is middle click doesn't work, which is the problem I described. On Friday 14 June 2002 05:47 pm, you wrote: On Fri 14 Jun 2002 23:03, D. Olson wrote: Whiles we're bitching about copy and paste, let me throw my anger in here too. Stupid Klipper doesn't work as

Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?

2002-06-14 Thread et
windows. I wasn't using CTRL+V because that is what I use in Windows. I was using CTRL+V because that is what I use in Windows *AND* that Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?, shane Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?, D. Olson Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?, H.J.Bathoorn Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive

Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?

2002-06-14 Thread robin
As someone put in their signature, the only intuitive interface is a nipple; after that, you have to learn. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com