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On Friday 16 November 2007, Bryan Whitehead wrote: |
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> This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the |
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> clipboard. |
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My point is that text which I did not *specifically* highlighted should |
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never be placed in the clipboard (whether primary/secondary/whatever). |
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Real life example: |
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1) in firefox/mozilla using CTRL-L will highlight the address url so you |
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can quickly replace it with something else, you can also use CTRL-V to |
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paste in something off the clipboard because firefox/mozilla does not |
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affect the clipboard when the address url is highlighted. |
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2) in Realplayer using CTRL-L will bring up a dialog where you can type in |
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a url, the current url is displayed in the dialog and is already |
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highlighted. However realplayer has also overwritten the clipboard with |
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the current url, which in 99.9999% of cases is NOT what a user wants, |
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because now I cannot paste in a new url without having to first delete |
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the current url, then go back and copy the new url and finally paste it |
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into realplayer. |
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> This is just how X works. Getting around this is a |
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> hack in itself. |
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But how is it that all KDE programs have "hacked" it so that it behaves |
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correctly (IMO), whereas some gtk based programs like realplayer are just |
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so clumsy (to put it charitably). |
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Crayon |
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