Re: edit window copy/paste pain
On Mit, 2003-05-14 at 15:16, LaMont Jones wrote:
> It used to be that I could go into an edit window, select some text
> with the left mouse button, and then just push middle-button to paste
> the selected text.
>
> It would appear that we've switched to some winblows-like copy/paste
> scheme that requires me to left-button select, right-button tell it
> that I really want to select, and then right button paste. What do
> I do to restore the old behavior that I've been happily using for over
> 10 years?
>
> (To see the difference, fire up an X term, left-button select some text,
> and then push middle-button: presto, the text you selected appears as
> input. Now do the same thing in the galeon URL box, or the xchat dialog
> box, or...)
>
> All speaking about current sid, fwiw. Radically changing the UI without
> at least saying how to change it back is a _BAD_ thing...
Well, I think it's simply a bug (in GTK?) that the primary buffer
contents are lost when the selection goes away.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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