(Solution) Copy-Cut/Paste between applications
Jay Smith <jay-BB6z0fKkvBxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.usability.annoyances |
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| Organization | Jay Smith and Associates |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I know that this is not a "solutions" list, but since there are many concerned about this problem, I wanted to mention... I use a Windows 95 PC that has its Linux RH8 windows and applications through Xwindowing provided by *Cygwin*. Cygwin now has in it (I think the name is correct) xwinclip which provides *complete* cut-copy/paste interoperability between all my Linux applications and all my Windows applications. I can copy-cut/paste between Windows Wordperfect 8 and Linux Mozilla 1.2.x, etc. [xwinclip has a bug/feature that prevents copy-copy/paste above ASCII 128.] It is my understanding that Cygwin also runs in Linux and could be configured to provide the same benefits. By the way, Windows 95b machines even with only a 300MHz processor, 128MB memory, and 8 MB of graphics memory run this configuration just fine; four or five big Win95 apps and about 10 Linux terminal windows, plus Linux Mozilla, plus Linux Open Office. Yeah, I do have to voluntarily reboot once a day before I am "forced" to, but it does work. When Linux Windows-supporting apps get a little better and I can run things like Windows FrameMaker and Windows Benthic Golden32 Oracle Tools on Linux, my company will switch to 100% linux. Jay