This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the clipboard. Also, middle-click (or whatever is mapped to your 3rd mouse button) is paste. This is just how X works. Getting around this is a hack in itself.
Next time you are on an Solaris or AIX workstation - know that cut/paste is the same (as X intended): highlight and 3rd button click. :) On Nov 15, 2007 8:28 PM, Crayon Shin Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into > > the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the > > possibility to change this behaviour? > > I use Klipper and have it configured so that both clipboard buffers are > synced. Normally this works fine. However some GTK based programs > *always* puts whatever is highlighted onto the clipboard - it doesn't > matter *how* it was highlighted - ie whether I specifically mouse > dragged, or shift cursor, or even when the program itself highlighted it > (eg usually when you TAB within a dialog the text in a text input is > automatically highlighted). > > It is this last behaviour which is the most annoying - if I didn't > specifically highlighted then I don't want it on the clipboard, but gtk > based programs thinks otherwise. Another reason why I hate gtk and > gnome :) > > -- > Crayon > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
