Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare

[Thomas Taylor]

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 10:56, David Cary Hart wrote:
> Maybe the problem is in KDE. Sometimes ctrl-c works; sometimes it
> does not. Sometimes highlight->right-click->copy works.
>
> But the biggest problem is with paste. ctrl-v never works.
> Shift-insert works but I never know what it will paste. Similarly,
> the middle button of my mouse works but I never know what I will get
> and it is different from the results of shift-insert.
>

Anything you highlight will be copied into the clipboard.  Shift-insert will 
paste the last thing you selected from the clipboard.  That means you have to 
look at the clipboard and select it.  This works great for copying a URL from 
an email in kmail into Firefox in a different desktop.

The standard ctrl-c, ctrl-v and ctrl-x work fine within most KDE programs but 
not all; it also works fine in Abiword.

HTH,
Tom

> So in summary after copy or cut, I am never sure whether shift-insert
> or the mouse-middle-button will paste the just cut text. Frequently,
> neither works properly.
>
> Anyone else? Any suggestions? This is one of those minor annoyances
> that is extremely frustrating at times.

-- 
Tom Taylor
Linux user #263467
Federal Way, WA