linux.gentoo.user

On Friday 16 November 2007, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the
> clipboard.

My point is that text which I did not *specifically* highlighted should
never be placed in the clipboard (whether primary/secondary/whatever).
Real life example:

1) in firefox/mozilla using CTRL-L will highlight the address url so you
can quickly replace it with something else, you can also use CTRL-V to
paste in something off the clipboard because firefox/mozilla does not
affect the clipboard when the address url is highlighted.

2) in Realplayer using CTRL-L will bring up a dialog where you can type in
a url, the current url is displayed in the dialog and is already
highlighted. However realplayer has also overwritten the clipboard with
the current url, which in 99.9999% of cases is NOT what a user wants,
because now I cannot paste in a new url without having to first delete
the current url, then go back and copy the new url and finally paste it
into realplayer.

> This is just how X works. Getting around this is a
> hack in itself.

But how is it that all KDE programs have "hacked" it so that it behaves
correctly (IMO), whereas some gtk based programs like realplayer are just
so clumsy (to put it charitably).

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