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 > > ---------------------------------------- > Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Description: > ---------------------------------------- > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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