Subject: Re: New Bug: #920
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 15:54:47 CDT
This is, unfortunately, standard behavior in XWindows. The idea is that
the selections mechanism works by pasting whatever's currently selected.
So, for standard-abiding X applications, X can only have one thing
selected at a time. At least that's how I understand it.
I don't know enough about the X clipboard or selection mechanisms to try
to change this in AbiWord. I remember that the UnixClipboard file has a
huge comment describing everything (but it was more of a rant :)).
Aaron Lehmann
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Paul Egli wrote:
> I've logged a new bug, #920. This one describes how, when you select text
> in one window, your selection in other windows gets canceled. This is
> especially annoying in cases where you are changing selected text in the
> document from a separate dialog such as Spell Check (bug 597) or the Font
> dialog (bug 920).
>
> I have noticed similar behavior in other applications on my Linux machine,
> so I'm wondering: Are these valid bugs, or is there an XWindows setting
> that I'm not aware of which I could modify in order to fix this behavior?
>
> -Paul Egli
>
>
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