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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

Yes, that's the way all gtk apps do it, both are standard X ways of
copy/pasting, though the select/middle-click way doesn't use a physical
clipboard (as in a memory buffer), but directly sends the pasted
information from one app to the other.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:33:04AM -0400, Dufflebunk wrote:
> Gnome at least uses two clipboards. One for the mouse highlighting, and
> one for the keyboard copying. Perhaps KDE unifies them... But I find
> this quirk useful.
> 
> On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 11:29, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > I doubt that. When I select something and then middle-click somewhere 
> > else, what I selected is pasted. But, this operation doesn't change the 
> > contents of the clipboard that I update with CTRL-C and paste from with 
> > CTRL-V. To me, that means they're different. I'd welcome clarifications 
> > to this, thanks in advance!
> > 
> > Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > 
> > >On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:09:45AM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Eric Sandall wrote:
> > >>
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >>>ISO, both machines have everything working that I need (xfce4
> > >>>
> > >>>      
> > >>>
> > >>So you you liked xfce4, ha ;-)? The thing I missed most with xfce3 is 
> > >>the central clipboard facility that GNOME or KDE provide. How's that 
> > >>now 
> > >>in xfce4?
> > >>Thanks!
> > >>
> > >>Sergey.
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >What do you mean with 'central clipboard facility'? xfce uses the
> > >standard X clipboard like gnome (and kde?)
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > 
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