Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:23:31 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: question on cut/paste in Gnome. Message-ID: <20040229202331.GA52630@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20040229103854.GC14123@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040229033156.GA50916@tao.thought.org> <20040229103854.GC14123@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 10:38:54AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:31:56PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > I've got Gnome set up as my default GUI on my new DNS > > server. (Seems much improved over the older RH8 version.) > > But how do I paste things? Clicking with first/third mouse > > buttons designate the string or area I want; it should be in > > the buffer. But the middle button (oR first&third) buttons > > don't paste. > > > > The right mouse button pops up small rectange with a "Paste" > > area, but this doesn't work. > > If it doesn't work the X-windows way, then it probably works more like > the way it does in windows: use the left mouse button to select the > text, then right click to get a popup menu which should have 'cut' and > 'copy' entries. Select whicher you require. Then left click to move > the cursor to the insert point, right click to bring up the menu and > select paste. > > You may also find that you can select the area, then left mouse down > on the selection and drag to where you want it to go. (Which is a > feature of OpenOffice that I personally hate because I want left mouse > to *always* select text.) > > It's possible that you may have difficulty cut'n'pasting between > applications that use different paradigms -- there may be more than > one cut-buffer under the hood as well. > Ah, so that's how OO 'paste' works. :-) (I've stumbled around with the program learning to move/copy/paste. My fingers are stuck in X-window mode... .) In Gnome, things highlight with a swipe or left-right click. I've used the right-click popup -> Paste. I was copying a command from one xterm to another. Nada. I also tried copying a few paragraphs of text across files in diff't xterms. SAme joy: none. (Hard to believe that Gnome wouldn't have built in the option... but then: Oh *well*). thanks! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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