Re: [Fink-users] copying from aqua and pasting into KDE

[Roland K. <rk...@e1...>]

Hi Alexander!

On 27 Feb 2006, at 00:35, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

> On 2/25/06, William Scott <wg...@ch...> wrote:
>> This is probably really simple, but it is driving me nuts.  I am  
>> sending this
>> from KMail, a KDE mail application that is x-windows-based.
>>
>> Unlike other X11 applications that I can paste from the OSX copy- 
>> buffer (or
>> whatever it is called), I can't do this into KDE (and I can't do  
>> the inverse
>> operation).
>>
>> If I want to copy a string of text from a web page displayed in  
>> safari, I
>> first have to paste it into a non-KDE X11 application (xterm, nedit,
>> whatever), and then select that text and paste it into KDE.  That  
>> seems
>> insane.
>>
>> Does anyone else have this problem?  Is there a better work-around  
>> or fix?  I
>> should mention I am running this and other kde applications as  
>> stand-alone in
>> Apple's X11 rootless environment, 10.4.5, etc.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> PS:  The latest KMail seems vastly more stable.
>>
>>
>
> You might try installing autocutsel.

nope, doesn't work. I've got the same problem with konsole. KDE is  
simply broken concerning the use of X selections (I tried autocutsel  
on all buffers I could find).

Ciao,
                     Roland

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