Of course, with Opera you can just open a new page.  It is funny that 
Konqueror seems to be the only borowser with a button that allows you to 
clear the address box. I wonder why Netscape and Opera don't have it?

mg


On Tuesday 15 January 2002 16:27, Phillip wrote:
> Not to help, just to chime in:
> In order for me to copy from email (Kmail) to browser (usually Opera)
> [to avoid use of Konqueror] I FIRST must erase anything in the loc.
> bar, then use the mouse buttons. Otherwise it does nothing.
> Just a "gripe."
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 15 January 2002 01:50 pm, Dave Sherman profoundly uttered:
>
>  On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 10:53, Paul Sue wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Why doesn't copy/cut & paste seem to work consistently?  For
>  > example, why can't I copy from my browser to my Evolution Compose
>  > Message box? Or from my e-mail to my eterm?  I've tried using the
>  > Control keys as well as well as from the menu and the clipboard
>  > icons.
>  >
>  > I think the problem seems to occur under both gnome and kde.
>  >
>  > Thanks foer any suggestions,
>  >
>  > Paul
>
>  Paul,
>
>  I have no such problems, so it may be an issue with your particular
>  install.
>
>  On the other hand (and I think this is more likely), you may be
>  doing it "wrong". For example, the standard X Window method of
>  copying and pasting takes two steps:
>  1. Highlight the text you want to copy. This will automatically
>  place the text in a clipboard buffer.
>  2. Place your cursor where you want to paste the text, and click the
>  middle mouse button. In most programs, you can simply put your mouse
>  pointer where you want to paste, and when you click the middle mouse
>  button, the cursor will automatically move to that position before
>  pasting the text.
>
>  Following the above steps, I was easily able to paste this from
>  Galeon (which is really just Mozilla):
>  http://sildara.dyndns.org/tools/schedule.html
>  and this one from Opera:
>  http://sildara.dyndns.org/tools/schedule.html
>
>  The Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V convention is really a Mac/Windows thing. It
>  is supported by some X Window software (pretty much anything using
>  QT and/or KDE libs, and I think also GTK), but not all. And because
>  different libs even do this Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V stuff differently, those
>  keystroke combinations may not work between some applications. I
>  suspect this is the issue you are running into.
>
>  Just stick with the X Window standard, and you will be fine. I have
>  *never* had a problem with that.
>
>  Dave
>
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