[opensuse] clipboard behavior
I am having a problem with the clipboard that is really annoying me. It is not openSUSE specific, but happens with openSUSE as well as with other Unix OSes. I am working in a MeidaWiki, making changes to a bunch of pages. The work flow is: - edit a wiki page - paste in the new text with Ctrl+V - highlight and delete some old text - save the edits - move on to the next page The changes cannot be scripted because the deleted text is not the same in every page, and the pasted text goes in different spots depending on the page. Anyway, this all works fine until I happen to click away from Firefox... for example to restore Thunderbird to check my email. No other clicking.. just restore Thunderbird and read but not edit or reply to messages (so, no copy paste actions and no text highlighting)... then I return to Firefox. When I return to Firefox, the text in the Ctrl+C clipboard buffer has been replaced by the text that was last highlighted in the workflow above. This happens on openSUSE10.2 in KDE and Gnome... as well as in Solaris with Gnome... sadly it is not consistent.... it doesn't happen every time I click away... maybe half the time. Has anyone else bumped into this? Any ideas or suggestions how to prevent the Ctrl+C clipboard from loosing it's copied data? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/24/07, Clayton wrote:
I am having a problem with the clipboard that is really annoying me. It is not openSUSE specific, but happens with openSUSE as well as with other Unix OSes.
I am working in a MeidaWiki, making changes to a bunch of pages. The work flow is: - edit a wiki page - paste in the new text with Ctrl+V - highlight and delete some old text - save the edits - move on to the next page
I'm not sure about the clipboard problem, but I have a suggestion anyway. Run the mozex firefox plugin and you can use whatever editor you want with no cutting and pasting. You just right-click on a textarea, click Mozex -> Edit Textarea. I use this plugin many times per day because it's so much faster and more convenient to use gvim to edit textareas. http://mozex.mozdev.org/development.html make sure to install 1.9.5 and nothing earlier. (incidentally, if you do use gvim as your editor, don't forget the -f param.) - -- Andy Harrison public key: 0x67518262 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFHH+NnNTm8fWdRgmIRAoh9AJ4xIV9mlmDmH0ZgPj0KAq+MtV9K2ACgzjOh OIj8qrBJg88mXVCSMNkxL+w= =HCup -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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