Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-22 Thread hkml
Hi Group, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread hkml
Alex Schuster wrote: Klipper (the KDE clipbboard) has a setting to keep the content of clipboard and current selection separately. I thought this could only be used to force the behaviour you experence, but maybe it works the other way around for you and lets you disable it. Thank you for the

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 16 November 2007, Bryan Whitehead wrote: This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the clipboard. My point is that text which I did not *specifically* highlighted should never be placed in the clipboard (whether primary/secondary/whatever). Real life example:

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
It boils down to underneath everything is Xlib and the guts of X. The guts of X have many ways to do the same thing and the result is QT, GTK, KDE, GNOME, etc all end up messing with a different piece of how X should handle cut/paste. As another post points out - there seems to be 2 different ways

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Billy Holmes
Quoting Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Solaris and then you can't paste it into something else? For example, I highlight in firefox, but it doesn't paste in my xterm... and my xterm doesn't seem to like any combination of Ctrl-V, etc xterms shouldn't intercept Ctrl-V to the clipboard.

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Saturday 17 November 2007, Bryan Whitehead wrote: As an example, it looks like the Firefox/Mozilla people want to enforce the first way. So people like me (who love highlighting and clicking) get pissed off because the behavior is changed in JUST firefox. It doesn't feel consistent. That

[gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread hkml
Hi Group, I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that the clipboard content

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Alex Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text; Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the content of the first selection. It seems that the

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the possibility to change this behaviour? I use Klipper and have it configured so that both clipboard

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Bryan Whitehead
This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the clipboard. Also, middle-click (or whatever is mapped to your 3rd mouse button) is paste. This is just how X works. Getting around this is a hack in itself. Next time you are on an Solaris or AIX workstation - know that cut/paste is