From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 22 15:32:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A341737B42C for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 15:32:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdq@yahoo.com) Received: from h2.impactidealsolutions.com (HELO support10) (216.98.200.91) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 May 2001 22:32:54 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-Id: Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:36:29 -0600 X-Priority: 3 From: Peter X-Mailer: Mail Warrior To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: copy & paste behavior - this really bugs me Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Mailer-Version: v3.57 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 Usually I just middle click several times before Netscape takes it. On 05/22/2001 4:28:28 PM, Doug Barton is quoted as saying: . . . .|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 www.nul.cjb.net www.FreeBSD.org _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message