[ILUG] X clipboard weirdness

[John Allen]

On Sunday 18 April 2004 21:21, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Sunday 18 April 2004 20:24, Dermot McGahon wrote:
> > > I looked at this paper, but as far as I could see it never explains
> > > precisely what is meant by PRIMARY, SECONDARY and CLIPBOARD selection.
> >
> > It does explain it.
>
> Could you quote one sentence from this paper then
> that explains in normal English what is meant by any of these terms?
>
> > I've no idea what kmail and konsole are doing, but I've attached
> > the xsel app so that you can experiment and find out.
>
> Thanks, I'll try that.
> But I actually know what is happening.
> Select works, but pasting does not work in many KDE and GNOME applications.
>

Works for me in virtually all applications, except Java ones. With Java apps I 
have to use the clipboard (Copy+Paste)

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