[ILUG] Gnome clipboard

[Lars Hecking]

P??draig Brady writes:
> Lars Hecking wrote:
> >  Can someone explain how the clipboard works under gnome (CentOS5) and how,
> >  if at all, it can be configured. Cut and paste truly sucks as it is now.
> > 
> >  I expect to be able to select some text with the mouse and then use the
> >  middle button to paste it somewhere. This fails completely if the marked
> >  text contains characters like "'" (single quote). So, what is the magic
> >  to make this work?
> 
> I've never noticed an issue like that.
> Have you glipper or something running?

 Never heard of it.

$ rpm -q glipper
package glipper is not installed
$ 

 This is a bog standard CentOS 5 desktop.