From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 15:29: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17EF637B42C for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 15:29:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA98439; Tue, 22 May 2001 15:28:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3B0AE80C.144E1C5A@DougBarton.net> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:28:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: Chip Wiegand , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: copy & paste behavior - this really bugs me References: <20010520121341.1f7b9876.chip@wiegand.org> <3B084322.CC35F83@iowna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran wrote: > > Chip Wiegand wrote: > > > > I use fbsd for my typical home use, on 3 machines, and if there is one item > > that I find difficult it is in copy & paste behavior. I use a mail client > > called sylpheed (based on gtk+), and netscape 4.76 (most of the time). Why > > can't I copy a url link from an email message and paste it into the location > > bar of netscape? This is such a pain to have to type in those often very > > long urls in some messages. > > Anyway, that's just my gripe, becuase I just came up against it again. > > Copy/paste in Netscrap is ALT+C/ALT+V instead of CTRL. > That being said, it still doesn't work all the time with other apps. Netscape has a slightly wonky view of the X clipboard. Try leaving the text highlighted in the app you're copying from, that usually works for me. -- I need someone really bad. Are you really bad? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message