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Re: nice goal, you'll never reach it.
by Kevin Krammer on Sunday 20/May/2007, @03:19

> with Feisty's KDE 3.5 pasting text from Mozilla Firefox (an url) to the console (e.g. for wget) does not work, but when you past it to kate and repaste it to the console it does work

How did you copy it? Did you properly select it with the mouse (for pasting with the mouse) or did you do a copy action, e.g. context menu, CTRL+C?

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Re: nice goal, you'll never reach it.
by Andre on Sunday 20/May/2007, @06:38

select- left click - copy
and paste with middle mouse button.

maybe no KDE problem because you have the same problem with Mozilla. As if there were two different clipboards.

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Re: nice goal, you'll never reach it.
by Paul Eggleton on Sunday 20/May/2007, @13:15

That's because there *are* two different clipboards in X - thus people who are expecting a Windows/Mac style clipboard get what they want, and people who expect a Unix style clipboard get what they want also. Just don't try to mix the two.

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Re: nice goal, you'll never reach it.
by Kevin Krammer on Sunday 20/May/2007, @14:09

Hmm, well, true.

But in this case it should have worked. After selection the URL text with the mouse it should be in the one "clipboard" for middle mouse paste and after doing the copy action it should *also* be in the other clipboard.

A problem would be if one has a link with a text that it is not the link's URL, i.e. the part inside the "a" tag is not the text in the "href" part.

In this case one can only copy the link to the "action clipboard" and not to the "selection clipboard", thus cannot paste it with middle mouse click.

However I am not sure if an application is or is not allowed to set the "selection clipboard" as well if it doesn't have an explicit selection.

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