On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 02:21:38PM +1000, David Gillies wrote:
> I'm currently using Ubuntu Hoary (top distro btw), but I have one minor
> annoyance. Up until I moved to Ubuntu, I'd been using Redhat/Fedora.
>
> The clipboard, regardless of whether I selected the text or ctrl+c the
> text, it ended up in the same clipboard.
I have exactly the same problem in Fedora Core 3 and I do seem to
remember that it was not like this a few versions back. I'm pretty
sure that fc1 was better. It isn't specifically an Ubuntu problem.
It bites me when I run java in a web browser to access St George
internet banking (which will work from Firefox with the Sun jre provided
you also install the "User Agent Switcher" and set yourself to Opera
-- weird huh). The bank statement won't allow you to "select" it at
all but it does have a button marked "copy" which will copy it to the
clipboard. But you can't paste that into emacs because emacs only
accepts traditional X11 (i.e. the text MUST be selected).
On the other hand, pasting the bank statement into gedit works fine
(and that's about all I ever use gedit for).
How anyone could have ever decided that traditional X11 cut and paste
was difficult to use and needed to be augmented with something copied
from Microsoft is beyond the furthest horizon of my wildest nightmare.
That's the fun of free software, people really are free to do wild,
woolly and sometimes really stupid things with it. They will have all
on single button mice soon.
Believing in freedom requires that you also believe in tolerance.
- Tel
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