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

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

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.

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