On Thursday 08 November 2001 14:34, you wrote: > I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and have a problem with Copy and Paste commands, > they don't seem to work at all between applications and only > occasionally within an application. The info copied does appear in the > clipboard, but will not Paste. This is true of apps like Evolution and > Sylpheed.
You are probably trying to paste between KDE, Gnome and other X apps, which can be a real pain in the ass, because they don't generally use the same paste buffer (They could if they really wanted to...). BUT, 95% of the time, what you want to paste is just plain text. So try this: select the text to be pasted with the mouse. Don't hit CTL-C. Move the focus to (click with the mouse in) another window, but be careful not to move the mouse with the button down and create a selection in the new window. Hit the mouse *middle* button to paste the text in. If you have a 2-button mouse, hit left and right button simultaneously. In a standard installation you can even paste to and from terminals like this. It takes about 5 minutes to get used to this, after which there will be much slapping of foreheads and exclaiming "But this is so much easier than windows!" I find cutting and pasting in windows intolerably clumsy now. For example, If I click on a URL in Kmail, it automagically opens it in Konqueror, which is fine. But if I want to open it in Mozilla, I select the address in Kmail, FIRE up Mozilla and middleclick the address into the Mozilla's address edit box. Try it. You'll like it. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn
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