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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: X cut & paste (summary)
From:       Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       1997-06-09 18:24:56
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On Mon, 9 Jun 1997 ettrich@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

> > 
> > 
> > this whole discussion really is a waste of time... afaik to disable the
> > the primary selection mechanism of X would require quite a bit of hacking,
> > and the time for _THAT_ could be spent in some better way :-)
> > 
> > anyway, why not just add a copy,cut&paste to the rmb-menu for all those
> > who find 10$ way too much... and just leave the rest as it is?
> > 
> > Peter
> 
> BTW: I found an old two-button mice, wrote "emulate3Buttons" into my
> /etc/XF86Config and tried to paste into a kvt.
> 
> Worked fine, no menu popup. So I cannot see a problem with that.
> 
> I was thinking about an edit menu for kvt with a "paste" entry,
> but why ?! NOBODY will use it anymore after he/she tried the middle
> mouse button.
> 
> So _I_ will not implement this, anyway I don't mind a patch for that.
> 
> But keep in mind that the middle-mouse paste works with ALL X-Applikations.
> You can even paste in netscape's input-fields as well as in an emacs-window.
> 
> So it's a better choice IMO to teach the user to use the middle mouse button
> (in the yet-to-be-written-introduction-to-the-kde-desktop).
> 
> 
> Greets,
> 
>  Matthias


True.

peter

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