On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:14:05PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Cut & paste on Linux is different from on OS/2 and Windows Not significantly. > and KDE is different from Gnome. Yes, but not significantly as regards to cut and paste. > And some apps insist on doing it the Windows way, and some both ways. X has two mechanisms... selections, and the clipboard. Selections obviously only work while the application in which the selection occurs is running, while the clipboard persists. The usual freedesktop.org brokenness, which I believe Fedora/Gnome adopts, is to make the PRIMARY selection step on CLIPBOARD. I don't believe freedesktop.org even acknowledges that SECONDARY exists any longer. Highlighting with left mouse, then pasting with middle mouse, is NOT using CLIPBOARD. That's all the PRIMARY selection. Putting stuff in CLIPBOARD is an explicit act. However, since X has been configured to duplicate PRIMARY over CLIPBOARD, it means that it LOOKS the same. Read http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html for a good description of how it actually works. -- Marc Wilson | msw@xxxxxxx |
