Cut and paste behavior

[John Summerfield]

Marc Wilson wrote:
> 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.

swipe at paste is entirely different from OS/2 and Windows, and KDE does 
it considerably better, afics, than Gnome.

Hence my questions.


> 
>> 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.

that's not my experience in KDE.




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