From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 29 02:39:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33E816A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 02:39:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF4543D31 for ; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 02:39:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i1TActIp077384 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:38:55 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i1TAcsh7077325; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:38:54 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:38:54 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20040229103854.GC14123@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20040229033156.GA50916@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040229033156.GA50916@tao.thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: question on cut/paste in Gnome. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 10:39:02 -0000 --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > 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. =20 >=20 > 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. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAQcE+dtESqEQa7a0RAg5eAKCHQYzxbtefCHjJK9h0nF9m3I0Z+QCfXcfx V9rR/aC/jQYZTKe/57XYmBo= =lu8U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pAwQNkOnpTn9IO2O--