Re: [Usability]clipboard/selection behavior

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:33:25AM -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote: 
> > [Pauses to try various experiments.] I find that no gtk-2 apps on my
> > system will respond to mouse 2 by pasting the X selection (though
> > their Copy/Paste menu items work OK).  The other way works.  E.g.  if
> > I open a nedit window and a gedit window, I can highlight text in
> > gedit and paste into nedit with mouse-2, but if I highlight text in
> > nedit and do mouse-2 in gedit, nothing happens.
> > 
> > I guess my system must be messed up in some way -- any ideas on what
> > way?

> No idea, really, I haven't heard this one before. ;-)

Just for the record, this problem seems to have been an artifact of 
combining CVS gtk with other libraries.  Now that I have installed gtk 
2.0.8 the problem has disappeared.

Allin Cottrell.