David Cary Hart <Fedora <at> TQMcube.com> writes: > > Maybe the problem is in KDE. Sometimes ctrl-c works; sometimes it > does not. Sometimes highlight->right-click-≥copy works. > > But the biggest problem is with paste. ctrl-v never works. > Shift-insert works but I never know what it will paste. Similarly, > the middle button of my mouse works but I never know what I will get > and it is different from the results of shift-insert. > > So in summary after copy or cut, I am never sure whether shift-insert > or the mouse-middle-button will paste the just cut text. Frequently, > neither works properly. > > Anyone else? Any suggestions? This is one of those minor annoyances > that is extremely frustrating at times. > Keep in my mind that there are two different mechanisms. The selection is the currently highlighted text and it is pasted by the middle-mouse button. It is lost when something else is selected or the highlighting is lost. The clipboard is explicitly copied or cut from the selection. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, and Ctrl-V are supposed to be the standard keyboard shortcuts for those. The older shortcuts, Shift-Ins, Ctrl-Ins also work in many apps. Gnome Terminal, for example, is different so it doesn't interfere with normal terminal keyboards; it uses Shift-Ctrl-C, etc. My impression is that KDE was one of the last systems to change to the standard clipboard scheme and shortcuts. There are still a few applications which do things differently; Emacs is the most annoying one to me. - Ian
