Re: [Usability]clipboard/selection behavior

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:06:36PM -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Keith Packard wrote:
> 
> > Selections are a horribly misunderstood part of the X11
> > architecture.  The genesis of selections is due to Phil Karlton, one
> > of the diaspora of Xerox PARC who worked on the X11 specification...
> 
> Thank you for the useful info.  A propos, can anyone tell me why gedit
> and gnome-terminal won't accept the X selection for pasting?  I.e.  
> highlighting text in an xterm and doing mouse-2 in gedit (I'm
> currently running 2.0.5) produces no effect, while pasting into nedit 
> or emacs works fine.
> 

Works fine for me. (tested with g-t not gedit, but should work either way)

Havoc