<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.0.10"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi, On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 08:52, Owen Taylor wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 22:28 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > Since around RH7.3, I remember gtk2 applications would sometimes be > unable to copy & paste between each other after long runtimes within a > GNOME session. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>(:-) please make sure to clearly distinguish - The clipboard - Middle button paste (primary selection) <A HREF="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fclipboards_2dspec">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fclipboards_2dspec</A></PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I'm wondering if there is a mechanism to disable the Middle-click Pasting (the X Window System Primary Selection mechanism). It is a good feature to be able to do that at a "global" desktop level (as opposed to application level) because the concept of two pasting mechanisms isn't very easy to grasp, especially for people who haven't read the protocol specification at <A HREF="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fClipboardsWiki">freedesktop.org</A> or X Window System programming documentation regarding atom Primary, Secondary, and Clipboard. (Those were the documents in which I first encountered the Primary Selection and Clipboard concept - not in a user manual or Tips of the Day.) The Middle-click Pasting mechanism is easily discovered by novice users, but at that point, there is no guide/documentation readily available for users to be able to explore the use of it. Instead, users would stumble through many unexpected behavior before concluding that cut-and! -paste is broken on this system (because there surely isn't any help available to give them the correct concept that there are two mechanisms where Middle-click pastes from Primary Selection - the high-light - and the Clipboard mechanism requires explicit cutting/copying, not just high-lighting.) What can be done so that a global setting to enable/disable Middle-click Pasting is available? Is these protocols implemented by individual applications or is it implemented by the GTK toolkit? If it is the later, a GConf setting for the entire desktop can be provided, right? Is there such a thing already? If so, is a global setting already available? And if so, should Middle-click Pasting default to disabled at Fedora Core installation time? <PRE><TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <PRE>-- Daniel. </PRE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </PRE> </BODY> </HTML>