On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 00:10, jdow wrote: > > > > Yeah, you can do that in X, too. Use the clipboard (ctrl+c or "copy" > > menu item) instead of the primary selection. If you behave like you're > > using Windows, you'll get the results that you want. > > That works so little percentage of the time for me that it's worthless > advice. Worse it seems to be utterly unpredictable when it will and > will not work. Can you list a few things where the right-mouse/copy paste functions don't work predictably? > X-Windows is one huge bug. I prefer consoles for Linux. Real consoles are painful. Xterms (gnome-terminals, etc.) give you everything you can do in a console plus more of them and cut/paste between them - even when some of the windows are remote machines. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
