On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:56:42PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:10:17PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > under X if you highlight it, it is automatically and immediately > > copied to the clipboard. > > It's more complicated than that: > > http://www.jwz.org/oc/x-cut-and-paste.html > > Some of the newer applications, toolkits, and desktop managers may try > to hide the details. For example Gnome has a built-in clipboard > service which monitors selection activity and grabs a copy of any > selected data. I think KDE has something similar, and there's an > old standalone "xclipboard" program which does the same thing. > > Back in the 90s the mess was much more user-visible, especially if you > were running Sun OpenLook applications alongside plain X11 > applications. > ... but even "Back in the 90s" the 'mess' was a whole lot more usable than MS Windows cut and paste.
-- Chris Green
