Re: Copy-pasting between to different windows...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 06:27, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:32, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > I hope I'm not bugging y'all with "problems" that only relate to the old
> > version of nautilus (2.2.1) - but here goes.
> > 
> > Copy-pasting doesn't work between two different windows. It does work in
> > the same window though. Is this intentional? It would be very desirable
> > to have this option if you ask me...
> 
> This is due to a core problem in the design of X11. There is no way to
> get an event when the owner of a selection changes. The fix for this is
> in the Xfixes extension. This extension was added in 4.3.0, but was
> backed out at the last minute. Hopefully in the future it will be in
> again...
> 
> The workaround is to select a file in the other window. That should give
> you the paste menu entry.

Assuming that the different windows are from the same nautilus process,
this should be trivial to fix... just track of whether *you* have the
selection and always keep the Paste menu sensitive when you do.

I'd also suggest that if you can't reliably tell whether the
Paste menu should be sensitive, it should be left sensitive always.

Regards,
						Owen