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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020314 Description of problem: If you were to highlight some text someplace, let's say mozilla, and go paste it into a konsole (kde) using SHIFT+INS, it does not paste the correct information. This was the behaviour in redhat 7.2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Highlight text 2. Hit SHIFT+INS 3. Notice that what was pasted is not the text you highlighted Additional info:
I'm not sure where this fits in most appropriately as a bug report, either mozilla, kde, qt, or something else, but cut and paste in this context has nothing to do with XFree86, this is a higher level abstraction. Reassigning to KDE component
This is similar (though opposite) to a problem I reported in the Roswell beta as Bug 51716 having to do with the differences between KDE, Mozilla and Gnome in how it treats the clipboard and select. You can read about the clipboard problems of KDE 2.2.2 interoperability at this URL: http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt In short, the old behavior in QT2 would always copy into CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY on select, while Gnome and Mozilla would only copy into PRIMARY. This behavior was very annoying to many people because it lacks consistency between applications and made for an annoying time when you want to delete a block of text and paste in its place (wasn't possible). In QT3 the behavior was changed to act like Gnome and Mozilla where select will only copy into PRIMARY, and not CLIPBOARD. This behaves in a consistent way across all applications, and it will not continue to be a nasty surprise for Windows and Mac users (one of the reasons the German government mentioned when they turned down KDE for government desktop use). This change in behavior wont effect Unix users that like "SELECT and middle-click" for all of their copying and pasting needs. It will work in your case, or alternatively you can select "Copy" after you select in Mozilla then Shift-Ins will work in Konsole. I'm guessing you don't like this change in behavior. I had nothing to do with the change, but I have to strongly agree with their reasons mentioned in that URL above and I am very happy that it now behaves in a way that Windows and Mac users expect. If this is a satisfactory explanation, I would suggest this bug be closed as NOTABUG.
Sounds sensible to me.
I don't understand exactly why SHIFT+INS can't have the same action as the middle mouse button. I guess, what is the proper way to copy and paste? For example, I copy some text by highlighting it (in any application), what is the proper way to paste it? CTL+V does not work in Konsole, but does in mozilla. Middle mouse button works everywhere I have tested. I am guessing that some of this is on a per application basis. If I am just a misguided fool, let me know, but perhaps even a way to map the keystroke SHIFT+INS to the 'correct' (in my eyes) action would be cool too. Thank you! I can learn a new method but what is the preferred, most used, best method of copying and pasting in all applications?
> I don't understand exactly why SHIFT+INS can't have > the same action as the middle mouse button. Middle mouse click did this in Unix a LONG time go. We don't want to take away this old select and paste behavior from the old Unix users who expect this to work. Fortunately, this is almost entirely independent of the Copy/Cut/Paste behavior that Windows and Mac users have come to expect. KDE3, Gnome, and Mozilla now treat these two methods as seperate entities, hopefully keeping both camps happy. About the question of what is the "right way". There is no right way. I use both methods depending on the situation. If you don't like either way, change it yourself. It is Open Source. You have choice.
One more thing. There is one notable exception to the select/middle click. Wine currently doesn't support that.