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Re: cutting from outside maple and pasting into maple-- why so difficult?

Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.maple
Date	2018-07-30 18:44 -0700
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Subject	Re: cutting from outside maple and pasting into maple-- why so difficult?
From	jfh <john.harper@vuw.ac.nz>

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On Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 6:33:03 AM UTC+12, William Unruh wrote:
> On 2018-07-30, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:18:11 -0400, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> I am running maple (9.5 and 2016) on  Mageia 5/6 Linux machines. Sometimes I
> >> want to cut something (left mouse button and then drag over the desired text)
> >> from say a text file outside of maple, and paste (middle click)  into
> >> maple. It does not work. Maple seems to be using a different buffer than than
> >> most X programs do. Such cutting and pasting works within maple, but if I try
> >> the above what is pasted into maple is the last thing I cut from within maple.
> >> I can do it by opening say xedit or nedit window, cutting from the file I want,
> >> pasting into that editor, cutting from that editor and then pasting into
> >> maple. But that is a really ponderous way of doing things.
> >
> > While I don't know the answer off hand, to get any help more info will
> > likely be needed.
> >
> > As Mageia doesn't have a package called maple, given the newsgroups
> > selected, I'm guessing the maple software is from
> > https://www.maplesoft.com
> > Best to specify exactly which program they offer that is being used.
> 
> The program is xmaple, a script to run their program maple in an X window
> rather than text based. The versions are 9.5 (yes a really ancient version)
> and 2016 ( a recent version) This cut and paste behavnour has been a feature
> for many ,many years.
> 
> >
> > While X does provide clipboard functions, most of the desktop environments
> > have their own clipboard management. Which environment is being used, kde,
> > gnome, mate, xfce, enlightment, lxde, lxqt, cinnamon, etc.?
> 
> kde/plasma
> 
> >
> > Most likely the solution will be switching to a desktop environment that
> > only uses the X clipboard, rather then it's own.
> >
> > It's also possible that maple has been written to work with an environment
> > that is unique to a specific desktop's clipboard features.
> 
> I do not think so, but do not have enough info to know.
> 
> >
> > The output of "ldd /usr/bin/maple" (with the correct path and binary
> > name) can help indicate which gui it's written to use (gtk, qt, etc.).
> 
> I suspect it is their own implimentation of X.
> No indication in the libraries that it is calling any gui software.
> 
> >
> > Regards, Dave Hodgins
> >

I have no trouble with either xmaple 2017 or just maple (the command-line version which starts by saying Maple 2017 (X86 64 LINUX). The former gives prettier graphics, the latter makes my errors easier to catch. I often cut and paste, usually with an emacs window containing the input file and an (x)maple window showing what Maple did with it.

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