On 05/19/2010 01:08 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 19 May 2010 16:11:59 Armelius Cameron wrote: >> Hello, >> I use a 3rd party software as a reference manager for papers / articles >> from http://www.mendeley.com/. As far as I know, the software is written >> in QT. The program lets me to "Copy Latex Citation", which I can then >> paste to an editor, e.g. Kile, as, for example "\cite{author2000}" >> >> The only issue I have is: when I hit "Copy Latex Citation" from that >> program, then open Klipper from taskbar (left click), I can see that the >> correct string is put into klipper and it's at the top of the list. >> However, when I hit mouse middle click on Kile to paste it, what shows up >> is always the previous thing that is in the clipboard, i.e. the second >> thing on Klipper. >> >> To work around this issue, I always have to explicitly select the first >> thing in Klipper clipboard before I can paste. So I have to do: >> 1. hit "Copy Latex citation" >> 2. Open Klipper with left mouse click, see that the item is already there >> on the clipboard as the first item >> 3. Explicitly left-click the first item on Klipper >> 4. Paste on Kile with middle click. >> >> I wonder why 2& 3 are necessary. This doesn't seem to happen with other >> program. So, is the problem with Mendeley's software, or with Klipper ? If >> it's the former, then why it shows up correctly on Klipper clipboard ? >> Isn't "Paste" (middle click) suppose to put whatever it is on the first >> item on Klipper ? >> > It's klipper. I don't know why, but for some time now there have been all > sorts of problems. Sometimes it's an empty line above the one you just > copied, so nothing pastes. Sometimes the copy doesn't land on klipper for > several seconds. Sometimes the newest copy appears in the middle of the list. > In all cases I find it necessary to explicity select the required paste, as > you do. Someone said it is a configuration problem, and I must set > Synchronize contents of the clipboard and the selection - but it didn't help. I have noticed all of the above problems as well. > > Anne > > > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: boutilpj.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 286 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100519/6f785808/attachment.vcf
