"The choice of software components that makes Linux so appealing to its users is also the reason that Rev doesn't work with everything."
Jacque, I'm afraid this is really not what is going on. Consider a personal case. I now use mainly ion2 and openbox as window managers. Before that it was Fluxbox, before that both Gnome and KDE. This means using at least three or four different window managers, two different desktop environments, different display managers also (I have mixed kdm, gdm, xdm, wdm with these other choices). I've also used different distros during this period, Mandriva, Debian, Slitaz, Slax.... Everything just works. All the applications. This is the whole point of Linux, or one of them: it is not about proliferation of choice leading to instability. Its about having well defined layers and APIs, so that variety is possible without impairing stability. It makes no difference to a well behaved Linux application which WM you are running, or which clipboard manager. If it does, the application has a problem, its not Linux that has the problem, its not understandable if applications don't work consistently with different flavors of Linux, it means they are defective. The worst possible message the Linux users could send to Rev is that slowdowns and crashes on cut and paste are acceptable, because Linux is just like that. This is a complete fantasy, as anyone with experience of Linux knows. The fact is, no editor I have ever used, and this included kedit, gedit, leafpad, nano, kate, geany (no, I am too old for vim and emacs) ever crashes or does anything untoward on cut and paste. But Rev does, and its done it on KDE, on Gnome, on Mandriva, on Debian. On ion2, Rev will not even run. All other applications run, one or two with some slightly odd behavior, but none of them simply crash, like Rev does. (Ion2 is a minimalist tiling window manager, so it behaves very differently from Gnome, but it is perfectly standards compliant and runs all other apps perfectly). On no WM does Rev run properly with multiple desktops. This is another clue if one needed one: all other apps work fine with multiple desktops, it is only Rev that does not, and it fails consistently across ALL WMs. Rev needs to wise up and fix itself to behing a well behaved Linux app. We all must under no circumstances let them off the hook on this. Its not Linux, its not the distro, its not the cilpboard manager, its not the WM. Its Rev, it is not a well behaved application. And its the one out of step, its not everyone else. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/RunRev-Script-Editor-and-Linux-tp2286440p2288438.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution