Quoting Bryan Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Solaris and then you can't paste it into something else? For example, I highlight in firefox, but it doesn't paste in my xterm... and my xterm doesn't seem to like any combination of Ctrl-V, etc
xterms shouldn't intercept Ctrl-V to the clipboard. Ctrl-V is a valid control sequence that a console application might desire. I use aterm, and it recognizes Ctrl-Ins just fine.
regarding the rest of your message, there can be something said regarding having a suite of applications that are developed by the same people. They are consistent. However, I could argue that there isn't a well defined design document for X11 programs - especially one that is up to date.
I do feel that programmers should listen to their users. They should recognize that people like Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, or things like Edit menus. However, realize that we're running on X11, and there are programs out there that are unmaintained. Therefore, the old way of cut/paste should still be available for backwards compatibility.
I feel firefox, thunderbird, and OOffice do this rather well. I can cut and paste between applications which understand C-C and C-V as well as programs which only understand the 3rd mouse click (or dual left-right click emulation).
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