Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!nzpost2.xs4all.net!news.kpn.nl!not-for-mail Subject: Re: cutting from outside maple and pasting into maple-- why so difficult? Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mageia,comp.soft-sys.math.maple,alt.os.linux References: From: dillinger Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 18:53:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.168.2.170 Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: 503ac7dc.textnews.kpn.nl X-Trace: G=N7fcm5+D,C=U2FsdGVkX1/yWVv+4OLFgeugeNmDU0j24muUw8J6OrCZe4aDR9Jiyn2DiHjFexZGVcp4ys1/Rqu0HHKX5kezzort9+f4hNEz/c0QMqHMinA= X-Complaints-To: abuse@kpn.nl Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mageia:19302 comp.soft-sys.math.maple:1314 alt.os.linux:49785 On 07/30/2018 05:18 PM, William Unruh 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. > No real solution from me either but perhaps a little less ponderous workaround: I've found that copying text and then pasting it into a terminal doesn't always work. I'm using Clipman as a workaround on Xfce. The copied text does show up in the list of Clipman and after selecting it in that list it can be pasted into a terminal. Clipman (xfce4-clipman-plugin) lives in the Xfce panel and keeps track of your last clipboard entries.