Re: X window cut-n-paste question
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 12:58, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Ok, I have to ask.
>
> What's the equivalent to windows, mark text to copy, Ctrl-C, move mouse,
> mark text to replace, ctrl-V to replace?
>
> I often find my self highlighting some that I want to paste someplace
> else. But that someplace else (like a Location entry for a browser)
> already has text in the field. So, I double-click to highlight, and
> backspace to remove, but now I've replaced my original cut buffer so I
> can't paste.
>
> This is running KDE.
One of the big problems of KDE 2 is that it uses QT 2. One of the big
problems of QT 2 is that it doesn't use the X clipboard protocol. Thus
KDE 2's implementation of the clipboard is badly broken. Gnome 1.4
handles this correctly.
QT 3.0 correctly uses the clipboard protocol. KDE 3 is based on QT 3.
Thus KDE 3 will work correctly with the X clipboard (and interoperate
with the gnome clipboard). Many people seem to think KDE 3 is not
changing anything with regards the kde system. But this one change alone
is a *major* improvement IMHO.
So perhaps the answer to your problems lies in KDE 3?
for more info...
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt
http://dot.kde.org/1006384488/1006476851/1006480500/1006486361/
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2000-November/msg00023.html
Kind Regards
Crispin Wellington
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