Suggestions: Drag Highlighted Text, Focus & Raise Window on Drag only

David Keogh davekeogh at shaw.ca
Mon Mar 19 09:43:47 CET 2007


On 3/19/07, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:15:01 +0900, robin wrote:
>
> > SUGGESTION 1: Drag Highlighted Text
> > Will XFCE intend to allow the ability to highlight text (maybe other
> > things as well) then dragging the highlighted text to text-editors,
> > terminals, or anything with a text-input-field? Gnome & KDE already
> > allows that, KDE currently does the best job I think. I would think
> > Mac OSX would be even better supported. The ability to do so would be
> > nice even though copy & paste still does the job.
>
> This has nothing to do with Xfce.  The application in question needs to
> set its drag sources and destinations properly.  Works for me here --
> with some applications that support it.

It's worth mentioning that Mousepad (the version that ships with 4.4
at least) doesn't accept text drag sources. Perhaps that's what he's
referring to.

David



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