Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:28:18 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why selecting text with mouse often doesn't make the text pasteable with mouse mid-button click? Message-ID: <20110918172818.GA8943@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <4E761714.1070308@rawbw.com> References: <4E7547B4.600@rawbw.com> <20110918130544.GA27690@saltmine.radix.net> <4E761714.1070308@rawbw.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 09:06:44AM -0700, Yuri wrote: > On 09/18/2011 06:05, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >>> I notice this again and again: when I select some text in Konsole > >>(KDE4) > >>> sometimes it doesn't paste with the middle mouse button click. > >Where are you pasting? (on another terminal emulator, in an application > >running in a terminal emulator, or within another X application)? > > > > Test selected in Konsole I usually paste into Konsole. and it fails > maybe in 5-10% of cases. hmm - no good guesses there. It could be an overactive Window manager grabbing the focus away at the wrong point (it's a nuisance on Mac OS X for instance). If it were a consistent problem with pasting into a given application, I had a couple of ideas... (consistent problems are easier to fix ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFOdioTtIqByHxlDocRAuXIAJ0drwAhs5OtQ/asutJjrokswrSp8ACfYo4e AYxOa6YCFicZY/ncOJLPAmA= =8YZ2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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