Annoying and seemingly unsolvable problem.
Thomas Sapp
tpsapp at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 20 02:09:23 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 16:55, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 16:40, netmask wrote:
> > >> close out of the application that I copied it from. Once I do that the
> > >> contents are no longer available for pasting. Is this just a fluke on
> > >> my machine or is anyone else having this problem? Is it even a
> > >> problem? Sorry for such a trivial matter but I am a long time Windows
> > >> user and am just trying to get used to all the quirks of a linux
> > >> machine.
> >
> > I'm a long time linux user, and only seem to research issues on servers so
> > much.. Although I run it as a workstation, I've never spent much time learning
> > the GUI's and figuring out the quirks.. I just deal with them and concentrate
> > on my work..
> >
> > Cutting and pasting has always been a problem for me in linux.. some
> > applications simply highlighting the data copies, some you have to right click
> > and hit copy, some you can hit ctrl-x to cut it and put it in the buffer..
> > some you can hit ctrl-c..
> >
> > and then pasting it.. well, maybe that's rocket science too.. Sometimes its
> > shift-insert, sometimes its middle mouse button, sometimes its ctrl-v.. Like
> > Craig said, it's all dependent on the application you are working in.. which I
> > dislike.
> >
> > Klipper does try to fix some of this, but even if it has its little quirks
> > (Although I think they are trivial fixable).. I never liked how clipper tried
> > to launch applications and be all 'smart'.. and retains a history/multiple
> > buffers.. I just wanted to be able to have ctrl-c be copy in every
> > application.. and ctrl-v be paste in every application.. no more, no less.
> >
> > So, I feel your pain. It's quirky.
> ----
> klipper does have preference settings (configure klipper) - you can
> disable 'actions' pretty easily (right click on the klipper icon next to
> the clock).
>
> Craig
Thank you both for your replies. At least it isn't something wrong with
my comp and I'm not crazy! We'll that second part may be a lie...
--
Thanks,
Tom Sapp
http://www.sappsworld.com
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