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

From	Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.mageia, comp.soft-sys.math.maple, alt.os.linux
Subject	Re: cutting from outside maple and pasting into maple-- why so difficult?
Date	2018-08-01 12:48 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 15:56:10 -0000 (UTC), William Unruh wrote:
> On 2018-08-01, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

>> Get Maple to fix their program.
>
> And they will point their finger at linux which leaves me up shit creek.
>
> So what I am trying to determine is where the problem lies. If I cut from
> nedit or xedit, it pastes into Maple just fine. If I cut from say konsole
> terminal it does not paste at all. This says that IN LINUX cutting from
> Konsole and nedit are treated differently. Eg, one possibility is that there
> are two different and distinct buffers.  THAT is a linux "problem".
> (by "cut" I mean "Hold down left button and drag over some text")

I would say if X11 complaint apps (nedit, xedit, xterm,..) work and
Konsole does not then it is an application/DE problem.

I have noticed that in some apps I have to use the application's cut/paste
keys instead of mouse buttons for content transfer.

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