On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:52 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 07:34, flacycads wrote:
> > > Cut seemingly works without problems. > > > > > > Damon > > > > On the off chance this might be it- klipper might be full, and configured > > wrong. > > Hi Robert, > > I didn't know about klipper (I use Gnome), so thanks for the hint. Now > I see via klipper that when I do a copy, a couple of "weird" characters > are going into the clipboard: � and then the square symbol. And that's > it - instead of a whole screen of text. > > But cut works fine, and shows up in klipper. > > So, time for me to figure out the new bug reporting system? :) > > Damon Sorry- missed that you said cut worked OK- that would indicate the buffer is saving stuff OK. I've little experience with Gnome, and have been on Gentoo for 3 months, waiting for MDK9.2 to get it together. But I do know Mandrake and KDE very well. Are you using 9.1? Was there always this problem, or did it suddenly occur? What's the Gnome equivalent to kde klipper? Does c/p failure occur when using another window manager? If so, what I would try with an RPM distro, is remove Gnome while in init 3 or another environment like kde, reboot to init 3 or kde, and then reinstall Gnome. With kde, when you do stuff like that, you always rename your ~/.kde folder first to kde.old, so you can replace your mail, and konqueror settings. However, investigate everything else first, before taking that drastic step. We need a Gnome expert to chime in here about the c/p problem! Two other tips for non-command line experts linux types who run into serious problems (myself included): 1. If drive room permits, always install kde AND Gnome, so you can repair and investigate things easier with a GUI. 2. Get a Knoppix cd, and learn how to use it as a rescue boot disk, with it's kde environment. I did my Gentoo install with this, and have bailed out of several seeming impossible situtations for a command line amateur! (Of course, for experts, it would have been easy at a CLI, if you had the background and required knowledge). Robert Crawford
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