On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 16:23 -0800, Daniel Yek wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 08:52, Owen Taylor wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 22:28 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > > > Since around RH7.3, I remember gtk2 applications would sometimes be > > > unable to copy & paste between each other after long runtimes within a > > > GNOME session. > > > (:-) please make sure to clearly distinguish > > > > - The clipboard > > - Middle button paste (primary selection) > > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fclipboards_2dspec > > I'm wondering if there is a mechanism to disable the Middle-click > Pasting (the X Window System Primary Selection mechanism). It is a > good feature to be able to do that at a "global" desktop level (as > opposed to application level) because the concept of two pasting > mechanisms isn't very easy to grasp, especially for people who haven't > read the protocol specification at freedesktop.org or X Window System > programming documentation regarding atom Primary, Secondary, and > Clipboard. (Those were the documents in which I first encountered the > Primary Selection and Clipboard concept - not in a user manual or Tips > of the Day.) The Middle-click Pasting mechanism is easily discovered > by novice users, but at that point, there is no guide/documentation > readily available for users to be able to explore the use of it. > Instead, users would stumble through many unexpected behavior before > concluding that cut-and! -paste is broken on this system (because > there surely isn't any help available to give them the correct concept > that there are two mechanisms where Middle-click pastes from Primary > Selection - the high-light - and the Clipboard mechanism requires > explicit cutting/copying, not just high-lighting.) My guess is that discovering middle button paste isn't something that people do accidentally; rather it's something they are told about by someone else. I'm not sure allowing a sysadmin to turn it off on one set of machines is going to improve the user experience. Regards, Owen
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