On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:21 +0930, Tim wrote: > Nice try with the insults, jackass, but CTRL + C or V doesn't work in > *all* applications, That's right, and your point is? On the bash command line ^C does something quite different, and vi implements it paste buffers in another way again. Bloody xeyes doesn't even blink when I use ^C or ^V... > neither *do* all applications have right-click copy > and paste options, and neither does highlight and middle-click pasting > work in *all* applications. It is obviously up to the application developers to decide which key bindings they want to support in which context. It is up to the desktop style guides to define what should work. The Gnome apps I'm using behave as expected, and support both clipboards. In some cases, alternative keyboard shortcuts must be used (like SHIFT-^C), e.g. in a terminal window running a shell - for obvious reasons. There are a few broken apps, like gcalctool (the Gnome calculator). It supports ^C/^V/right-click just fine, but also does a ^V on middle-click. That's a bug, IMO. > You *have* to do combinations, some of > which have really annoying effects. What combinations? You use one or the other, even simultaneously, but not in combination (like gcalctool does). Keeping that in mind, copy&paste works very well on all my boxes, even across vmware, vnc or citrix sessions. As for the insults, I suppose I overreacted a bit, and apologise for that. I just had to vent some frustration that's been building up for a while. I'm getting increasingly annoyed with a trend I'm seeing in this forum. Where are the times when people described their problems with adequate detail and asked for help? Nowadays, throwing tantrums and stomping feet seems more fashionable. This being a very friendly forum people get away with that. In other places (such as misc@openbsd) they would have been larted so badly that they wouldn't dare asking another question for 6 months... "Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare"? Give me a break! Cheers Steffen.
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