Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:32:29 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Eureka! Pasting into netscape Message-ID: <353D8EFD.CE0DAD3E@san.rr.com>
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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. 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, 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
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