On 11/14/10 19:44, Esteban Cervetto wrote:

Hi!

>>     Both is no problem. You select the text with the left mouse and
>>     drag, it get's highlighted. Don't care about the cursor here. As
>>     long as it is highlighted you can paste it where you want as usual
>>     in X11 by clicking with the middle button on the spot where to place it.
>
> I am trying to say there are two situations: one with the highlighted
> text and other with the highlighted text and the cursor active. The firs
> one inhabilites cutting/copying/pasting/deleting/ etc etc

The first one is actually X11 mode, right? Ie. middle button
pastes(?)

>>     Ctrl-C does "copy to clipboard" for me, Ctrl-V does insert as usual.
>>     Unfortunately, indeed SAA-Keys do not work (Ctrl-ins/Shift-ins). Noted.
>>
>>     I can also just select with the left mouse and then paste with the
>>     middle button as it is supposed to work in X11. The text to copy has
>>     to be highlighted for this of course, as usual in X11.
>
> Good trick! :)  I dont know it in X11.

No trick it is the common behaviour of the clipboard on Unix
since, ahm, the invention of X, I suppose. So it's actually
"like it should be". (However, the recent "desktop
environments" make quite a mess of it by constantly leaving
out "autocopy" once text is selected. :(

>>     Doesn't this all work for you?
>
> Only when the highlighted text has the cursor active too.

Ie. middle button doesn't work then as well. Hm, that's
strange indeed. I'll try if I can reproduce this.

cu
Alexander

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