Re: copy / paste

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Espen Sand <espensa online no> writes:
> 
> Can anyone explain to me why I can still not copy/paste 
> text between gedit (using Gtk 1.2) and kedit (using Qt 2.2.4)
> when using copy/paste from the menus. I am not thinking of
> middle mouse button copy/paste.
> 
> I assume both gedit and kedit (I know kedit does) use the 
> standard clipboard mechanism of the toolkit so where is 
> the showstopper located ?
> 

See: http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt

This is not really a GNOME/KDE issue, it's more of a
long-time-confusion issue that lots of X apps get wrong.

You can use xclipboard to monitor which one is properly using the
CLIPBOARD selection.

Havoc