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Re: [SLE] unable to copy and paste across apps
- From: Jon Clausen <dsl23212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:40:25 +0100
- Message-id: <20020217104026.A9A8C10299F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 16 February 2002 19:50, Tom Nicholson wrote:
> I was unable to copy 4 lines of text from an error message file in Kedit
> and paste it into Netscape. Using netscape to access yahoo mail, I was
> creating a message to send via yahoo mail. Anyone know why? what I don't
> have installed or enabled?
Ahhh Netscrape... cut'n paste...
I forget the specifics, but the bottomline is: Netscape has it's own idea
about cut/paste buffer, and (not surprisingly) it differs from kde's... So
you can probably cut/paste between netscape and... netscape, but not across
to kde apps...
> My machine is SuSE 7.2pro. Full installation of everything. I thought there
> was some equivalent of win32's clipboard active in kde2.
There is: Klipper. It's nice too. And as usual, more powerful and
configurable than the W$ counterpart. It just doesn't speak 'Netscape'. (Not
that I know of anyway, CMIIW)
> Finally got yahoo to send the errors as an attachment. First I had to
> enable java script in netscape. I had it disabled cause I just ~hate~ java
> stuff as a browser user. You can be working along and something in the java
> program will re-select something you've just de-selected, or change your
> city,state selection without you knowing it. And slow to respond to
> keystrokes, forgot that. yeck. Still would like to know why copy and paste
> fails.
Yeah you can get around it. But unless you have a three-button mouse (or
emulating of that enabled), there is some amount of jumping-through-hoops
involved. If you *do* have a three-button mouse, then selecting text in
netscape, and middle-button-clicking in whatever other app, *should* paste it
there regardless. Also this *should* work in both directions.
If I'm not mistaken, the reason this works is that the middle-button-paste is
handled, not by either of the apps's c/p buffer, but by the windowmanager
directly... Right? (Somebody, anybody?)
Sorry to not be able to explain the c/p failure more precisely :(
I'll just offer MHO:
Netscape will: Gobble up your RAM as a cereal, with milk. Turn off your
refrigiator. Rearrange the channel settings on your tv, and overdub all your
videotapes with reruns of Ricky Lake. It will feed your canary to your cat.
Feed your cat to your dog, and let out your dog, when it's in heat. Order 10
tons of gravel to be delivered in your driveway. Slash your tires, and key
your car. Tell your wife you cheated on her, with her best friend. Tell your
wife's best friend that you said she talks too much, and tell *her* husband
that you voted for George Bush...
In other words: Netscape is Bad For You, and as you can probably tell, I
don't like it much. If at all possible -ditch netscape. It just f*cking
sucks! (resources too...)
Jon
> I was unable to copy 4 lines of text from an error message file in Kedit
> and paste it into Netscape. Using netscape to access yahoo mail, I was
> creating a message to send via yahoo mail. Anyone know why? what I don't
> have installed or enabled?
Ahhh Netscrape... cut'n paste...
I forget the specifics, but the bottomline is: Netscape has it's own idea
about cut/paste buffer, and (not surprisingly) it differs from kde's... So
you can probably cut/paste between netscape and... netscape, but not across
to kde apps...
> My machine is SuSE 7.2pro. Full installation of everything. I thought there
> was some equivalent of win32's clipboard active in kde2.
There is: Klipper. It's nice too. And as usual, more powerful and
configurable than the W$ counterpart. It just doesn't speak 'Netscape'. (Not
that I know of anyway, CMIIW)
> Finally got yahoo to send the errors as an attachment. First I had to
> enable java script in netscape. I had it disabled cause I just ~hate~ java
> stuff as a browser user. You can be working along and something in the java
> program will re-select something you've just de-selected, or change your
> city,state selection without you knowing it. And slow to respond to
> keystrokes, forgot that. yeck. Still would like to know why copy and paste
> fails.
Yeah you can get around it. But unless you have a three-button mouse (or
emulating of that enabled), there is some amount of jumping-through-hoops
involved. If you *do* have a three-button mouse, then selecting text in
netscape, and middle-button-clicking in whatever other app, *should* paste it
there regardless. Also this *should* work in both directions.
If I'm not mistaken, the reason this works is that the middle-button-paste is
handled, not by either of the apps's c/p buffer, but by the windowmanager
directly... Right? (Somebody, anybody?)
Sorry to not be able to explain the c/p failure more precisely :(
I'll just offer MHO:
Netscape will: Gobble up your RAM as a cereal, with milk. Turn off your
refrigiator. Rearrange the channel settings on your tv, and overdub all your
videotapes with reruns of Ricky Lake. It will feed your canary to your cat.
Feed your cat to your dog, and let out your dog, when it's in heat. Order 10
tons of gravel to be delivered in your driveway. Slash your tires, and key
your car. Tell your wife you cheated on her, with her best friend. Tell your
wife's best friend that you said she talks too much, and tell *her* husband
that you voted for George Bush...
In other words: Netscape is Bad For You, and as you can probably tell, I
don't like it much. If at all possible -ditch netscape. It just f*cking
sucks! (resources too...)
Jon
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