Cut & Paste between apps

[Gordon Messmer]

Thomas Taylor wrote:

>In future, please give us a bit more information.  Particularly the desktop 
>being used, kde or gnome or?, and the distro and kernel.
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None of that is really relevant to copy and paste between evolution and 
firefox, specifically.

>All I can say is that kde uses global shortcuts which has a default of 
>'ctrl-ins' for copy to klipper (kde clipboard) and 'shft-ins' for paste.  
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...which applies only to KDE applications, and isn't relevant.

>Documents don't have to be kept open after copying, they will paste correctly 
>even when the original is closed.
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That is true of KDE applications, when you're using the KDE desktop.  It 
does not apply to evolution and firefox.