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Bug#578153: marked as done (Multiple clipboards and cut and paste buffers in X11)

Your message dated Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:16:56 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #578153,
regarding Multiple clipboards and cut and paste buffers in X11
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Package: general
Severity: normal

This report covers problems with multiple cut and paste buffers
due to multiple clipboards being used in X11 applications.

Problems include: being unable to paste data copied from an X11 application
into a console mode application.

Inconsistent and confusing copy and paste operations using the mouse, due to
menu copy operations not matching the mouse selections and clicks.
(The middle button paste does not match the Menu: Edit, Paste in program
menus. Likewise the dragover copy, does not match the Menu: Edit, Paste in
program menus).

Copying information from a KDE application (such as konqueror), does not
allow a corresponding paste into an non-KDE application (neither the dragover
and click copy mechanism, nor the Menu: Edit, Copy, Menu: Edit, Paste
facilities enable the data to be copied). (I am not sure whether this is
window manager specific, but it is certainly a problem if I am using icewm.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i386)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 13:12 +0100, markhobley@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: normal
> 
> This report covers problems with multiple cut and paste buffers
> due to multiple clipboards being used in X11 applications.
> 
> Problems include: being unable to paste data copied from an X11 application
> into a console mode application.

The current de facto standard for X clipboard and selection behaviour
can be found at:

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ClipboardsWiki

Please file specific bugs on applications that do not follow this.

> Inconsistent and confusing copy and paste operations using the mouse, due to
> menu copy operations not matching the mouse selections and clicks.
> (The middle button paste does not match the Menu: Edit, Paste in program
> menus. Likewise the dragover copy, does not match the Menu: Edit, Paste in
> program menus).

This is correct behaviour: there are two distinct selections for copy
and paste.

> Copying information from a KDE application (such as konqueror), does not
> allow a corresponding paste into an non-KDE application (neither the dragover
> and click copy mechanism, nor the Menu: Edit, Copy, Menu: Edit, Paste
> facilities enable the data to be copied). (I am not sure whether this is
> window manager specific, but it is certainly a problem if I am using icewm.)

This is not expected behaviour - unless you exit the application that
you copy from.  No data is copied until you select paste, so the source
application must still be running.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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