Hello,
I figured it out - when I have strokes defined then the pasting
operation does not work properly - having e.g this will break it:
Stroke 852 2 A N Exec exec xterm -fg white -bg black &
I can live without strokes - but they are nice.
Cheers!
Paul
paul harris wrote:
> Hello,
> Thanks for the reply Dominik.
> Unfortunatey it is not just mozilla I can not use the middle mouse
> button to paste to Gvim, glade, open office, gnome-terminal etc. I
> am hoping it is a setting I am using. I did try unbind strokes to see
> if that was the issue but the behavior was the same.
>
>
> Here is the version information:
> [pbharris_at_bugs ~]fvwm -version
> fvwm 2.5.8 compiled on Nov 9 2003 at 02:04:45
> with support for: ReadLine, Stroke, XPM, PNG, Shape, XShm, SM,
> Xinerama, XRender, XFT, NLS
>
> fvwm comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may
> redistribute copies of fvwm under the terms of the GNU General Public
> License.
> For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
> [pbharris_at_bugs ~]
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:50:19PM -0600, paul harris wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I have an issue that my middle mouse button does not paste properly
>>> when using any of the 2.5.x series of fvwm. I can paste using the
>>> middle mouse button from xterm to xterm but not from other programs
>>> i have found, e.g. from mozilla to xterm. I can also copy and
>>> paste for apps that have pull down menus, e.g. from mozilla to a
>>> gnome-terminal or open office. Everything worked great in fvwm
>>> 2.4.x Is there a way to fix this?
>>
>>
>> I think this is a problem with mozilla (1.4 here). I can confirm
>> the problem, but evidence suggests that it is indeed mozilla which
>> sometimes does not copy the selected text to the clipboard. It
>> always works if I select Edit->Copy from mozilla's menu (or press
>> Ctrl-C). Furthermore, when it fails to work, pasting always
>> inserts the previous selection, so I know that pasting does work.
>> I don't see how fvwm could prevent mozilla from copying the
>> selected text to the clipboard.
>>
>> Ciao
>>
>> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 00:18:19 GMT