Cut and paste behavior

[Marc Wilson]

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.

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