-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 > From: Peter Clark <peter-clark at bethel.edu> > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Clipboard? > Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:00:13 -0500 > > > I'm very new to Linux. I have Red Hat 7.3 installed (with Gnome and > KDE). > > > > I've noticed that across SOME applications, copy and paste works, > and > > across others, it doesn't. Is there any rule that applies, and is > there > > anything like the Windows "clipboard" or the equivalent (if I knew > what I > > was doing). > > It would help if you could mention which programs do not work. > Many of the > older programs have this problem, and the 2.0-2.2 versions of KDE had > trouble > correctly pasting to GNOME programs. However, as of KDE3, this has all > gone > away. (I don't know what version of KDE RH 7.3 uses.) > In the meantime, there is a universal copy-paste method that, in > the long > run, you will use just about all the time because it is so much > quicker and > easier. Highlight the text you want to copy, move to the window that > you want to > paste the text in, and press the middle mouse button. (If you only > have a > two-button mouse, you can emulate a third button by pressing both the > right and > left buttons at the same time.) Voilá! I just tried it--pasting between a KDE3 text editor (KWrite) and a non-KDE3 text editor (Nedit). The two-button emulation works. That'll come in very handy. Thanks. > Technically, X has two "clipboards." One is for the ctrl-c, ctrl-p > variety, > the other for the highlight-and-middle-mouse-button variety. That way, > you can > have two different texts stored, which can definitely come in handy at > times. > I should also note that if you are using KDE2, a "klipper" utility > is > started in the system tray that was intended to overcome the problem > of pasting > to GNOME programs. If you are using KDE2, try clicking on it to find > out more. > :Peter > Thanks again, Randy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Keys- http://www.geocities.com/burns98/rb_pub_keys.txt iD8DBQE9n7uVhNLaTSzsrh8RA/c8AJ9hf0V4U+W5qMpmwGnTRno0TiA/CQCg0OCD ++gT6Vkp9NwhpwHBTS8Lww8= =SmDP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----