Cut and paste

[shipdadip]

> Can someone point me to an explanation of how cut and paste are supposed
> to work in Linux?  I'm highlighting blocks of text and copying them in a
> kterm and then trying to paste into a gedit window.  Half of the time the
> paste doesn't happen, or I have to try to do it 3 different ways before it
> works.  Control-V never seems to work.  Sometimes, right-clicking the
> mouse and selecting paste works.  It may be related to the klipboard
> utility.  I haven't looked into that yet.
> I'm running the kdesktop under Mdk 9.1 rc2.


I think it really depends on the application.  You can pretty much forget
about ctrl-c and ctrl-v.  Most applications use the middle mouse button to
copy and paste.  If you don't have a middle mouse button you should enable 3
button emulation, than you press both buttons and it acts like a middle
mouse button.