On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:40:06AM +0100, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > I thought this was expected, but just tried it, and it worked between > > 2 xterms, so I guess I am wrong. > > It looks as if the problem is related to X itself or GNOME, as the same > problem appears between gnome-terminal and xterm, or when closing xterm > before pasting something in firefox.
xterm normally uses the primary selection, and mozilla normally uses the clipboard. firefox may have some feature that allows it to use the primary selection, but that goes away when the application is closed, loses focus, etc. If that's what you're seeing, it's not a bug. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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