On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 07:20 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:42:57AM -0500, Chu Tan wrote: > > Experiment: Open firefox, highlight something, paste it in evolution > > using middle click, and it works. Close firefox, paste again using > > middle click, and something else was pasted. > > Correct. Firefox isn't running any more, thus no longer owns PRIMARY, so > whatever is in PRIMARY *now* gets pasted. > > Since evolution is a GNOME application, without looking I'd imagine what's > occurring is that since there is no PRIMARY selection any longer, it's > pasting whatever's in CLIPBOARD. > > > Copying form Gedit to Evolution, the middle click approach exhibits the > > same problem, whereas, the ctrl-c/v works even after Gedit is closed. > > Again, Gedit no longer owns PRIMARY, since it's no longer running. > > Regarding CLIPBOARD, they're both GNOME applications. :) > > Perhaps one of Fedora's GNOME packagers can step up and describe exactly > how they've configured things. Or you can always look at the X resources > yourself. > Given what you have just said, this behavior is expected for the left-middle mouse click method. The issue is that ctrl-c/v exhibits the same behavior with some "gnome" apps. After experimenting more, this happens with Evolution and Firefox. Gedit, gnome-terminal works just fine in the way cut/paste(clipboard) is handled. I've also discovered that my firefox 2.0.0.3 is downloaded directly from mozilla, which probably explains the incompatibility with clipboard. Evolution 2.8.3 is installed through fc6 official packages.
