From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 18 17:28:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744E5106564A for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:28:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 365698FC17 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id p8IHSJuM009478; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:28:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id p8IHSJ32009477; Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:28:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:28:18 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: Yuri Message-ID: <20110918172818.GA8943@saltmine.radix.net> References: <4E7547B4.600@rawbw.com> <20110918130544.GA27690@saltmine.radix.net> <4E761714.1070308@rawbw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E761714.1070308@rawbw.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Why selecting text with mouse often doesn't make the text pasteable with mouse mid-button click? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:28:20 -0000 --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 09:06:44AM -0700, Yuri wrote: > On 09/18/2011 06:05, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >>> I notice this again and again: when I select some text in Konsole=20 > >>(KDE4) > >>> sometimes it doesn't paste with the middle mouse button click. > >Where are you pasting? (on another terminal emulator, in an application > >running in a terminal emulator, or within another X application)? > > >=20 > Test selected in Konsole I usually paste into Konsole. and it fails=20 > maybe in 5-10% of cases. hmm - no good guesses there. It could be an overactive Window manager grabbing the focus away at the wrong point (it's a nuisance on Mac OS X for instance). If it were a consistent problem with pasting into a given application, I had a couple of ideas... (consistent problems are easier to fix ;-) --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFOdioTtIqByHxlDocRAuXIAJ0drwAhs5OtQ/asutJjrokswrSp8ACfYo4e AYxOa6YCFicZY/ncOJLPAmA= =8YZ2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--