Ubuntu and the clipboard

[cl at isbd.net]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:14:38AM -0700, Scott wrote:
> > 
> > This avoids all keyboard interaction at all and (at least to my mind)
> > is much more logical.  Why involve the keyboard at all?  You *have* to
> > use the mouse to select the text and probably also to say where it is
> > to be pasted so involving the keyboard inevitably means more hand
> > movement is required than if only the mouse is used.
> 
> Your logic does make sense, but I've just never been comfortable with a
> lot of the "features" in X.
> 
> Long before I ever used X, I tried out the "X-Mouse" tweak in Winidows
> 95 (and later) which Mimics X-Window mouse behavior.   I dumped it in a
> few days. I tried using those features again later on in Linux and still
> didn't like them. :-)
> 
> That window-focus-follows-mouse stuff will drive one nuts in a matter of
> minutes.
> 
... and of course for me having been using mostly Unix since around
1980 it's quite the opposite, *not* having "window-focus-follows-mouse"
drives me crazy!   :-)

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)