Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:14:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> To: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Eureka! Pasting into netscape Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980422115703.22265A-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <353D8EFD.CE0DAD3E@san.rr.com>
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Studded: Thanks for posting this. It is a great help. I have just downloaded and installed Netscape 4.05, and am getting used to it. I was lamenting that there seemed to be no universal cross-application cut and paste the way there is in Windows. Well I guess I was wrong. I am sure that its behaviour is a different in X. Are you using XFree86 or another X-application? When copying to the clipboard are you limited to one screenfull, or is there an equvialent of the Windows "select all" function? Another problem I have been having is that Netscape downloads a file at the click of the mouse when the browser has opened a http connection, but with a ftp connection open through the browser, a mouse click gives an ascii download to the browswer window. On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Studded wrote: > I post to -questions because I've asked this question several times, > and to -newbies to show that even old hands learn something new > occasionaly. :) If you have a question, follow up to -questions, if you > want to commiserate, follow up to -newbies, and if you want to flame me, > don't bother. > Do you mean that there is also a -newbies list? > I love netscape and use it in X for mail, news and of course, web > browsing. The only thing I didn't like about it was that I couldn't > paste into netscape from other parts of X. It was making me batty. What > I was doing was what I learned somewhere, swiping with mouse button one > to highlight what I wanted, clicking once with mouse button one to copy > the text to the clipboard and then clicking once with the middle button > to paste. This worked fine for EVERY app except netscape. > > So, the other day I'm upgrading to netscape 4.05 and decided to test > the pasting problem, just in case. Well, after being bitterly > disappointed I decided to try something just to see if it works. I don't > remember why I wanted to try this idea, but anyway what I did was > highlight the text in the xterm and *leave* it highlighted. Then I > clicked in netscape with the middle button and Voila! It pasted. You > can't imagine my joy. :) > > I am sure many of you are thinking, "Well duh!" and that's fine. Many > people told me various solutions, none of which worked, so I wanted to > get the answer that works in the archive. For the new users, my moral is > simple, never give up. :) Try things that sound loopy, one of them just > might work. (But make sure you have good backups first!) > > Hope this is useful for someone, > Very useful for me. Can't wait to try it out. > Doug > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet > *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > I have never tried IRC. If you e-mail me how to instructions, I might find the time to try it out. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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