Re: [Evolution] clipboard integration

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 10:16 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> Evo doesn't seem to integrate itself with the clipboard like all other
> apps I use.  That is, I need to leave mail open in a window to copy
> parts of it to somewhere else.  Say, I select a link/address from within

I've done this loads of times under gnome and it works. Perhaps it's a
XFCE issue?

Do you have a 3rd mouse button? try selecting the text and using the 3rd
mouse button to paste

> the body of an email <copy>, close email, and jump to another desktop
> with a browser and <paste> into the address bar - nothing.  The copied
> text is gone from the clipboard.  Same even if I am copying text between
> an old mail and a new one I'm composing while staying within Evo on one
> desktop.  It only works as described if I leave the mail open in a
> background window.  Is this a "feature" or a window manager issue, given
> that all other apps behave as I want?
>
> Using Evo 2.0.4 (nothing better avail on FC3 repos) on Xfce 4.2.0 on
> FC3.

Evo 1.4 to evo 2.2.3 now.

> Gavin  
>
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