The way of highlighting text and using a middle-click to paste it has become so second-nature to me that I recently asked a friend of mine why his copy-and-paste features on his Windows computer weren't working. He reminded me that I needed to actually select "copy" and then "paste" from various menus, or ctrl+c and ctrl+v, and so on. X handles it so much more elegantly. Sadly, I'm about to leave on a 2-month business trip where I'll be stuck using Windows XP, so I will have to reacquaint myself with the less efficient method of cutting and pasting.
With regards to slowness of relaunching Evolution, I'd suggest this: 1. Shut down Evolution 2. When the "Evolution is shutting down" message goes away, check Top or ps to see what Evolution-related processes might still be running 3. Kill those processes, or run "killev" and "oaf-slay" (twice), if necessary I've occasionally been surprised to find some evolution related processes continuing to run even after I've shut down Evolution. I don't know if this is a bad thing, though, and it hasn't impacted my computer's performance (Mozilla is a much bigger memory and CPU hog than Evolution), so ymmv. On another note, though, On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 09:51, Paul Hands wrote: > Pat, > > I haven't a clue about the slowness issue. > > As for the cut and paste issue, on all linux and unix systems I know > of, the act of highlighting the text is enough to get it into the > paste buffer. Then you only have to middle button click in the target > window to paste the text in. If you only have a 2 button mouse, > middle click is often emulated by pressing both buttons together. > > HTH, > > Paul > > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 17:32, Pat Schloss wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just updated to the newest version of Evolution. When I've just > > logged in and open evolution it does so quickly. However, if I > > close the program and then open it later in the same session, it > > takes about 3 minutes to load. Any ideas on what's wrong? > > > > Also, is there any way to copy text from a message I've received? > > When I highlight text, ^C doesn't work and there's nothing under the > > Edit tab. > > > > Thanks, > > Pat > > -- > > Pat Schloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery
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