>
>On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 03:42:57PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>> >>   Netscape is happy to recieve. it's balsa that won't give.
>> >> 
>> >>   Can you thnk of anything I might have misconfigured?
>> >
>> >Are you both running the same versions of Balsa and GNOME?  I think
>> >cut-paste things are actually handled by the GTK+ toolkit.
>> 
>>      Might not be. I will check. I thought this was a window manager thing
>>      tough. How would Netscape interact with gtk+ ?
>
>Cut-Paste is a function of the X server.  The app you're cutting from
>needs to tell the X server that a "cut" buffer is available for testing,
>and your "paste" target asks the X server for data.  This is why you can
>cut-paste between apps running on different machines.
>
>GTK+ normally handles notifying X when you select something in one of it's
>widgets, but it doesn't always work.
>

        Ah, so t's a Balsa problem :-(

        Is there a more mature mail program, that fits nicely inot the Gnome
        environment?

        Thanks for all the help BTW.


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Windows 98: n.
        useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
        a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
        originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit 
        company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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