thx, glad to hear it's not only me, misery loves company Jeremy C. Reed wrote: >On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, mike hoy wrote: > > > >>I've noticed that if I copy contents of a document to the clipboard and >>then close the original document BEFORE pasting the contents of the >>clipboard into the target document I lose the contents of the clipboard. >> >>is that normal in linux distros? >> >> > >That is normal for X. There has been on-going discussions about this on >the xorg developers list. > >Try using an in-between application like xclipboard to help. > > Jeremy C. Reed > > open source, Unix, *BSD, Linux training > http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/ > >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss