Cut and paste

[bithead]

Many applications will implicitly copy whatever text is selected when you
select a popup menu's paste function, or as mentioned earlier when you use
the middle mouse button. I have been using a lot of ssh sessions from PuTTY
and often, the right mouse button will act as my Paste button in just text
mode. It really depends upon the application.

GUIs tend to provide their own (additional or improved) Cut and Paste
functionality. Play around with your apps a bit and you will have it down in
a few minutes.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyber Source" <peter at thecybersource.com>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: Cut and paste


> Highlight the text to copy and paste with the middle button or wheel of
> your mouse (if you have one)
> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 13:45, josephj at buffnet.net wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks,  Joe
> --
> Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
>