Subject: Re: cut and paste on Linux
From: Brian K. White (linut@squonk.net)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 09:16:21 CDT
Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 May 2000, Bryan Cebuliak wrote:
>
> > One of the beautiful features of Linux and X windows as opposed to lesser OS's
> > is the mouse cut and paste option. Editing is sped up immensely. Can we have
> > this in Abiword? Also, why doesn't Abiword recognize copies and cuts from other
> > programs in X windows managers?
> > Bryan Cebuliak
> >
>
> HI Brian,
> I've just tried this. Abiword accepts text from xterm's and
> netscape. xterm's and netscape also accept text from abiword. However the
> gnome terminals (gterm) does not pass text on to abiword though it accepts
> it if is sourced from abiword. However text taken from gnome-terminal is
> accepted by xterm and netscape.
>
> Arrg! This is a can of worms. It is not clear whose fault this is.
>
> I'm running Enlightenment 0.163 on redhat 6.2. I know you're running
> Xfree4.0, what window manager do you use? Does Abiword accepted text
> selected from any application you run. (Try netscape and xterm. They both
> seem well behaved.)
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
there is more than one method of cut & paste at the xlib level. some apps
don't recognize both methods. This same or functionally the same issue was
recently resolved for xwpe. I don't know the details but I can refer you to
the person who did the fix.
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