Re: [Usability]clipboard/selection behavior

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

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.

Allin Cottrell.