Normal behavior, Or Bug?

Kevin Francis kevin at arslinux.com
Thu May 13 07:39:14 UTC 2004


That's normal behaviour - the copy/paste model is still being resolved
over @ freedesktop.org. As for evolution, use the right click menu/edit
menu after selection and copy. Hope this helps.

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 10:50, slim wrote:
> Hi, 
> I was just wondering if this behavior is normal..
> When copying text from any application and pasting to any other
> location, The copied text will be lost if the application from which you
> copied is shut down..
> 
> two examples
> 
> if coping text from one terminal to another, the text copied will be
> lost if first terminal is exited before the paste operation.
> 
> lets say I copy some text from my mail reader, shut down the mail reader
> then go to paste in any application the text is lost.
> 
> Also on a side note, with evolution, I can not copy text from message
> body...
> 
> I am having these problems on the two machines I have running fedora on.
> 
> 1 is an amd upgraded from valhalla> shrike> FC1> FC2T3
> 
> the other is a clean install of FC2T3  pent-II 
> 
> Thanks for any insights
-- 
Kevin Francis
<http://denial.loose-screws.com>





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