Annoying and seemingly unsolvable problem.

David Keen zen46443 at zen.co.uk
Tue Jul 20 09:55:18 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 00:40, 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.

Here is a good description of how 'selections' and the clipboard work in
X:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

Also this:
http://xserver.freedesktop.org/Standards/ClipboardsWiki





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