Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

[Billy Holmes]

Quoting Bryan Whitehead <driver@×××××××××.net>:


> Solaris and then you can't paste it into something else? For example,
> I highlight in firefox, but it doesn't paste in my xterm... and my
> xterm doesn't seem to like any combination of Ctrl-V, etc

xterms shouldn't intercept Ctrl-V to the clipboard. Ctrl-V is a valid  
control sequence that a console application might desire. I use aterm,  
and it recognizes Ctrl-Ins just fine.

regarding the rest of your message, there can be something said  
regarding having a suite of applications that are developed by the  
same people. They are consistent. However, I could argue that there  
isn't a well defined design document for X11 programs - especially one  
that is up to date.

I do feel that programmers should listen to their users. They should  
recognize that people like Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, or things like Edit  
menus. However, realize that we're running on X11, and there are  
programs out there that are unmaintained. Therefore, the old way of  
cut/paste should still be available for backwards compatibility.

I feel firefox, thunderbird, and OOffice do this rather well. I can  
cut and paste between applications which understand C-C and C-V as  
well as programs which only understand the 3rd mouse click (or dual  
left-right click emulation).

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