Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

[Alex Schuster]

hkml@×××××××××××.de writes:

> I have problems with my clipboard, that I never experienced with other
> Linux distributions: If I do 'mark text; Ctrl-c; mark different text;
> Ctrl-v' e.g. in Eclipse the second selection is not overwritten by the
> content of the first selection.
>
> It seems that the clipboard content is overwritten as soon as I mark
> text. This behaviour is not depending on the window manager/ desktop
> environment (I tried fvwm and kde), so it is probably some X
> configuration stuff. As far as I have understood, there are 2 different
> clipboards with one being changed as soon as you mark text (pasting at
> mouse-middle-click) and the other is changed by pressing Ctrl-c (pasting
> at Ctrl-v). Is that correct?
>
> If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into
> the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the
> possibility to change this behaviour?

Klipper (the KDE clipbboard) has a setting to keep the content of clipboard 
and current selection separately. I thought this could only be used to 
force the behaviour you experence, but maybe it works the other way around 
for you and lets you disable it.

	Wonko
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