On Mit, 2003-05-14 at 15:16, LaMont Jones wrote: > It used to be that I could go into an edit window, select some text > with the left mouse button, and then just push middle-button to paste > the selected text. > > It would appear that we've switched to some winblows-like copy/paste > scheme that requires me to left-button select, right-button tell it > that I really want to select, and then right button paste. What do > I do to restore the old behavior that I've been happily using for over > 10 years? > > (To see the difference, fire up an X term, left-button select some text, > and then push middle-button: presto, the text you selected appears as > input. Now do the same thing in the galeon URL box, or the xchat dialog > box, or...) > > All speaking about current sid, fwiw. Radically changing the UI without > at least saying how to change it back is a _BAD_ thing...
Well, I think it's simply a bug (in GTK?) that the primary buffer contents are lost when the selection goes away. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
