<DIV>K-office, OpenOffice, Star Office and some others use contrl c, v, and x just like MicroSoft. Also, hold the shift key and then use your arrows to highligt if you don't like the mouse.<BR><BR><B><I>shipdadip <shipdadip@adelphia.net></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR><BR>> Can someone point me to an explanation of how cut and paste are supposed<BR>> to work in Linux? I'm highlighting blocks of text and copying them in a<BR>> kterm and then trying to paste into a gedit window. Half of the time the<BR>> paste doesn't happen, or I have to try to do it 3 different ways before it<BR>> works. Control-V never seems to work. Sometimes, right-clicking the<BR>> mouse and selecting paste works. It may be related to the klipboard<BR>> utility. I haven't looked into that yet.<BR>> I'm running the kdesktop under Mdk 9.1 rc2.<BR><BR><BR>I think it really depends on the application. You can pretty much forget<BR>about ctrl-c and ctrl-v. Most applications use the middle mouse button to<BR>copy and paste. If you don't have a middle mouse button you should enable 3<BR>button emulation, than you press both buttons and it acts like a middle<BR>!
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