Hello All,
What is the concept of copy paste in linux as compared to windows? In windows I can save highlighted text or links in the clipboard and close the source program or editor. In linux, if the source program/editor is closed, it does not highlight the 'paste' option in the destination program or editor.
Case: As a safety measure links from emails are never clicked directly, instead they are copied and then pasted in the addres bar of the browser. In this process if the email client is closed, the 'paste' option is not highlighted. Same thing happens when saving parts of a web page text from a browser to a text editor.
So in linux is the concept of copy based on the an active link only as compared to windows, where a seperate memory pad is used to store the text?
Regards,
Rony.
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On 30/06/05 22:24 +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
Hello All,
What is the concept of copy paste in linux as compared to windows? In windows I can save highlighted text or links in the clipboard and close the source program or editor. In linux, if the source program/editor is closed, it does not highlight the 'paste' option in the destination program or editor.
The X server maintains two clipboards: 1> The one where your selection gets copied. 2> One into which you can copy with Ctrl-C, and paste with Ctrl-P.
There is a whole bunch of technical stuff about it, but I don't recall it offhand.
Devdas Bhagat
On Friday 01 Jul 2005 12:29 am, Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime on Jun 30, DB cobbled together some glyphs to say:
2> One into which you can copy with Ctrl-C, and paste with Ctrl-P.
Ctrl-V
middle button of mouse - for copying from a console, use ctrl-C and middle button of mouse to paste anywhere
Philip Tellis wrote:
Ctrl-V
As a test I tried it again. I copied the linuxers link from your mail in Thunderbird, closed it and then opened Konquerar to paste the link in the address bar but the paste option did not get highlighted. Even Ctrl V did not work. Then I did the same thing again but kept Thunderbird open and this time the paste option appeared and ctrl V worked too.
Regards,
Rony.
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On 02/07/05 00:27 +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
Philip Tellis wrote:
Ctrl-V
As a test I tried it again. I copied the linuxers link from your mail in Thunderbird, closed it and then opened Konquerar to paste the link in
Did you copy with Ctrl-C? Select, paste selected Copy with Ctrl C, paste with Ctrl V (apologising for the previous typo).
Devdas Bhagat
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