The way of highlighting text and using a middle-click to paste it has become so second-nature to me that I recently asked a friend of mine why his copy-and-paste features on his Windows computer weren't working. He reminded me that I needed to actually select "copy" and then "paste" from various menus, or ctrl+c and ctrl+v, and so on. X handles it so much more elegantly. Sadly, I'm about to leave on a 2-month business trip where I'll be stuck using Windows XP, so I will have to reacquaint myself with the less efficient method of cutting and pasting. With regards to slowness of relaunching Evolution, I'd suggest this: 1. Shut down Evolution 2. When the "Evolution is shutting down" message goes away, check Top or ps to see what Evolution-related processes might still be running 3. Kill those processes, or run "killev" and "oaf-slay" (twice), if necessary I've occasionally been surprised to find some evolution related processes continuing to run even after I've shut down Evolution. I don't know if this is a bad thing, though, and it hasn't impacted my computer's performance (Mozilla is a much bigger memory and CPU hog than Evolution), so ymmv. On another note, though, On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 09:51, Paul Hands wrote:
Pat, I haven't a clue about the slowness issue. As for the cut and paste issue, on all linux and unix systems I know of, the act of highlighting the text is enough to get it into the paste buffer. Then you only have to middle button click in the target window to paste the text in. If you only have a 2 button mouse, middle click is often emulated by pressing both buttons together. HTH, Paul On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 17:32, Pat Schloss wrote:Hi, I just updated to the newest version of Evolution. When I've just logged in and open evolution it does so quickly. However, if I close the program and then open it later in the same session, it takes about 3 minutes to load. Any ideas on what's wrong? Also, is there any way to copy text from a message I've received? When I highlight text, ^C doesn't work and there's nothing under the Edit tab. Thanks, Pat -- Pat Schloss <pds plantpath wisc edu>
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