Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

2017-06-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/06/2017 00:37, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 29/06/2017 12:53 πμ, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:43:03 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> >>> I dont like CTRL-V/CTRL-P that much...its a windows way. >> >> Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V pre-dates Windows. > > Yep:

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

2017-06-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/06/2017 12:53 πμ, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:43:03 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: I dont like CTRL-V/CTRL-P that much...its a windows way. Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V pre-dates Windows. Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-C#In_graphical_environments

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

2017-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/06/2017 07:45 μμ, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-06-26 19:18, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Sometimes the clipboard contents even disappear if you exit the application you copied from. Start Google Chrome. Select the URL bar. Press Ctrl+C. Quit Google Chrome. Try Ctrl+V somewhere. It's gone.

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

2017-06-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-06-26 19:18, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Sometimes the clipboard contents even disappear if you exit the > application you copied from. Start Google Chrome. Select the URL bar. > Press Ctrl+C. Quit Google Chrome. Try Ctrl+V somewhere. It's gone. The > clipboard content you just copied from

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

2017-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/06/2017 06:15 πμ, J. Roeleveld wrote: On June 26, 2017 3:19:49 AM GMT+02:00, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Similar things happen with VMware. It seems that many applications do not set the clipboard contents in a way that VB or VMw can recognize. Never found a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

2017-06-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/06/2017 05:15, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On June 26, 2017 3:19:49 AM GMT+02:00, Nikos Chantziaras > wrote: >> On 25/06/2017 09:12 μμ, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> On my Gentoo Linux box I am running Virtualbox and >>> on that virtual box Linux again. >>> >>> When trying to cut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

2017-06-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On June 26, 2017 3:19:49 AM GMT+02:00, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >On 25/06/2017 09:12 μμ, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> On my Gentoo Linux box I am running Virtualbox and >> on that virtual box Linux again. >> >> When trying to cut text from a terminal or another >> text-based

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

2017-06-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/06/2017 09:12 μμ, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On my Gentoo Linux box I am running Virtualbox and on that virtual box Linux again. When trying to cut text from a terminal or another text-based apolication and past that into a firefox running on the virtualized Linux it fails. But when I start

[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

2017-06-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-06-25 20:12, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > When trying to cut text from a terminal or another text-based > apolication and past that into a firefox running on the virtualized > Linux it fails. > > But when I start a firefox on the host system, cut text from a > terminal or another text-based