Re: question on cut/paste in Gnome.
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:31:56PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I've got Gnome set up as my default GUI on my new DNS server. (Seems much improved over the older RH8 version.) But how do I paste things? Clicking with first/third mouse buttons designate the string or area I want; it should be in the buffer. But the middle button (oR firstthird) buttons don't paste. The right mouse button pops up small rectange with a Paste area, but this doesn't work. If it doesn't work the X-windows way, then it probably works more like the way it does in windows: use the left mouse button to select the text, then right click to get a popup menu which should have 'cut' and 'copy' entries. Select whicher you require. Then left click to move the cursor to the insert point, right click to bring up the menu and select paste. You may also find that you can select the area, then left mouse down on the selection and drag to where you want it to go. (Which is a feature of OpenOffice that I personally hate because I want left mouse to *always* select text.) It's possible that you may have difficulty cut'n'pasting between applications that use different paradigms -- there may be more than one cut-buffer under the hood as well. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: question on cut/paste in Gnome.
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:38:54AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:31:56PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: I've got Gnome set up as my default GUI on my new DNS server. (Seems much improved over the older RH8 version.) But how do I paste things? Clicking with first/third mouse buttons designate the string or area I want; it should be in the buffer. But the middle button (oR firstthird) buttons don't paste. The right mouse button pops up small rectange with a Paste area, but this doesn't work. If it doesn't work the X-windows way, then it probably works more like the way it does in windows: use the left mouse button to select the text, then right click to get a popup menu which should have 'cut' and 'copy' entries. Select whicher you require. Then left click to move the cursor to the insert point, right click to bring up the menu and select paste. You may also find that you can select the area, then left mouse down on the selection and drag to where you want it to go. (Which is a feature of OpenOffice that I personally hate because I want left mouse to *always* select text.) It's possible that you may have difficulty cut'n'pasting between applications that use different paradigms -- there may be more than one cut-buffer under the hood as well. Ah, so that's how OO 'paste' works. :-) (I've stumbled around with the program learning to move/copy/paste. My fingers are stuck in X-window mode... .) In Gnome, things highlight with a swipe or left-right click. I've used the right-click popup - Paste. I was copying a command from one xterm to another. Nada. I also tried copying a few paragraphs of text across files in diff't xterms. SAme joy: none. (Hard to believe that Gnome wouldn't have built in the option... but then: Oh *well*). thanks! gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
question on cut/paste in Gnome.
I've got Gnome set up as my default GUI on my new DNS server. (Seems much improved over the older RH8 version.) But how do I paste things? Clicking with first/third mouse buttons designate the string or area I want; it should be in the buffer. But the middle button (oR firstthird) buttons don't paste. The right mouse button pops up small rectange with a Paste area, but this doesn't work. Thanks for some clues! gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
