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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: mskarl on 23 March 2002, 12:34

Title: Copy and Paste
Post by: mskarl on 23 March 2002, 12:34

Ok so I'm wondering why copy and paste doesn't seam to work very well in SuSE 7.3 (oops not 7.2) like I had previously said and was rightfully corrected :).

Example:  I copy something out of netscape and after open/close of a few different programs the info I had copied isn't on the "clipboard" is that what linux calls it?  

The only thought I could come up with is that some programs are written to use the "clipboard" and overwrite the information that I had put in there.  

I'm just courious...  

Thanks

Title: Copy and Paste
Post by: voidmain on 23 March 2002, 19:47

Different window managers have different ways of copy/paste and apps written for them use different methods. One method that should work in *any* app under Xwindows is to:

1) hilite the text in the source app window
2) click both L+R mouse buttons at the same time in the destination app window

Title: Copy and Paste
Post by: kinky on 23 March 2002, 23:26

also, you have a nice program that is with KDE called Klipboard or whatever that should by default be on your panel by your clock... anythign you copy from a program should go there, so you can go there to re-copy it to paste it into a new program.

Title: Copy and Paste
Post by: mskarl on 25 March 2002, 20:23

thanks all