The answer turned out to be "avoid the problem." Folks over on the KDE main list were mixed, some had never had the problem, some had never solved it, some had it miraculously fix itself. Netscape uses a different clipboard than KDE, the "X" clipboard, as opposed to something else. Darn.
So open xclipboard, "middle click" the text into it, and then Netscape will paste just fine. Sure enough, it works. Final question for a while: How to update the menu's? When I first loaded KDE (or gnome, or just olwm earlier, the first time all the Debian packages show up nicely shuffled out into menus. But changes don't show up, neither delete nor add. Any clues? It would be annoying to have such wonderful initial features as automatic menu population only to have to then maintain those same menus (where ever they are...) by hand. Thoughts? Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history