Insert in terminal

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On Mon, February 20, 2006 6:13 pm, Erika Meier said:
> On 20.02.2006 18:44:35 Erik Harrison wrote:
>
>>Middle mouse button is not the same thing as copying to/pasting from
>>the clipboard, hence some of your confusion
>
> huh? where exactly is the difference?

It's a bit complicated; see here:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
That page also describes a recommended behavior for how it should all
work.  Most apps/toolkits behave this way, with a few notable exceptions.

>>> The clipman plugin of the xfce panel reveals this and in my opinion
>>> this is just awful.
>>
>>May I ask what you mean by this?
> Sorry for my english...
> The problem is that sometimes I can copy&paste from gvim to terminal
> and sometimes I cannot. But when I click on the clipman plugin, then
> I can select what I want to paste and then - after having it selected -
> paste it correctly.
> Same thing from gaim to other gaim windows. I have to mark the text I
> want to copy, move my mouse to the clipman plugin, click on the last
> entry in its menu, move my mouse back to the gaim window and paste it
> where I want it to be. Two hours later everything works fine and just h
> alf an hour after everything was fine it is like in the first place.
> Its pathetic
>
> There is nothing wrong with the plugin itself, it just reveals the
> problem.

So why are you complaining here?  Go ask the authors of the software to
fix their bugs.  This discussion is OT here.

     -brian

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