Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 13:22 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > Georg Baum wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 12:56 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > >> Georg Baum wrote: > > >>> Nevertheless I am able to select something in LyX and paste it with > > middle > >>> mouse button into another app. I don't understand why this works. > >> Maybe because X do store the contents? > > > > Maybe, but how does it get to know that? > > Thinking more about it, I think rather that it's because the X selection > is put into the System clipboard in any case (while it should not). I > guess your other application just paste the Clipboard if the X selection > is empty. > > This is just a wild guess.
But it must be something else. I did not copy anything in LyX, only select it with the mouse, without pressing the middle button in LyX. That does not fill the system clipboard AFAIK. Georg
