Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Donavan Pantke <avatar@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 30 October 2002 02:53, Serguei Chabanov wrote:

> I agree, and even advocate using command line for such stuff. There are
> however exceptions, for example, when copying files from a CDROM: a single
> click will mount the disk and open it in Konqueror, and you can copy-paste
> files to another Konqueror window. Now, that's exactly how I used to do my
> copy-paste.
>
> Apparently, if I already have a running instance of Konqueror, when I click
> on CDROM icon, the window that opens is another window of the running
> instance, not a separate instance. So, copy-paste becomes possible between
> the CDROM window and the window that has already been opened.
>
> Somebody at KDE - or SuSE - has given it thought. In any case, if someone
> wants to have copy-paste enabled between any of Konqueror windows on their
> desktop, the desired command line switch must be somewhere around that
> cdrom icon. This switch can be used in other menu/panel entries calling
> Konqueror.
>

	You know, has anyone ever actually done a ps -auxf or similar, and see if 
these other windows are, in fact, child processes from the main one that got 
started? That could easily explain the problem: copy-paste would only work 
between members of the process group.

	Thanks
	Donavan Pantke