Re: Cut and paste question
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Tim O'Brien wrote:
> I've been using Debian for quite a while now, and was wondering what sort
> of support Linux/X has for cut and paste? Sure, there's the stuff with
> GPM where things can be cut and pasted, but it's not very universal.
>
There is limited support. You can highlight text with the left mouse
button, and paste it by clicking the middle mouse button (or your chosen
emulation of the middle button, e.g. both buttons at once). It's very easy
to accidentally click the left button again and lose your selection,
though. You also can't do the thing where you highlight text to replace
and then paste over it, because highlighting automatically copies the text
to the clipboard. This should work with most apps - xterm, emacs,
netscape, etc.
The Gnome and KDE desktop projects are both working on X usability,
including this problem, so look for a better solution in the future.
Havoc Pennington ==== http://pobox.com/~hp
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