Question about cut-copy-paste on SLES90 Linux

Joerg Fischer jf505 at gmx.de
Wed Jan 9 22:02:58 CET 2008


Paterline, David L. wrote:

> I've recently begun working on a SLES90 Linux platform, and am having a
> problem with cut-copy-paste between NEdit and other applications,
> specifically, Eclipse.

Assuming you have an X installation, there should be xclipboard. 
Simply test if you can paste (both middle mouse and Ctrl+V) between
NEdit and xclipboard.

My suspicion is that these other applications might not use the X
selections PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD for their cut-copy-paste system.

Jörg


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