Thanks. For the previous response, I don't use KDE, my window managers range from Gnome to fluxbox. On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 18:28, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > Y. Makki wrote: > > >Hello > > > >In my quest to better understand the inner workings of a Linux system, > >here it goes. It seems there's 2 independent 'copy/paste' systems, one > >which works by a highlight/middle click method, the other by the > >ctrl-c/ctrl-v (and the right-click copy/paste menus). Is there any info > >regarding this to help clarify how it works? Important question is, is > >there a way of combining those 2 systems, so as I could highlight to > >copy, then ctrl-v to paste? > > > > > You can read about the X Window clipboard at > http://freedesktop.org/Standards/ClipboardsWiki > and/or at > http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html > >
