copy/paste failures when logged into another machine via ssh -Y

[Joep L. Blom]

On 13-07-12 15:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> One of the things I could do when I was running pclos on this machine was
> to use the mouse to hi-lite a line of text being displayed by gedit on the
> remote machine, switch to a different workspace here and MMB the text into
> another local file.
>
> I don't seem to be able to do that now that I am running ubuntu on this box
> too.
>
> Is this a gedit failing, or something else?  If a gedit failure, is it
> fixable somehow?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene
>
Gene,
An easy way is CTRL-Fn where n is the number of your workplace (works in 
xfce).
Joep