[vox-tech] Kmail Question

Micah J. Cowan micah at cowan.name
Tue Nov 15 09:36:01 PST 2005


On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:38:03PM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote:
> I've tried Thunderbird, Balsa (from GNOME) and Sylpheed-Claws.
> My biggest problem with Balsa and Sylpheed-Claws are the GTK+
> click-and-paste wierdness. When you select text that becomes the text
> that's pasted when you middle-click. When you deselect that text, the
> previous contents of the paste buffer are restored (which doesn't feel
> like the correct behavior at all).

Did you know that GTK+ also typically supports Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, with a
separate (internal--not X) copy buffer? Also, deselecting via an arrow
key, or possibly via Ctrl-Shift-A, will not alter the copy buffer.


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