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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Introduction to the Xwindows clipboard
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>> | One of the things that amazes a lot of new users to Linux is how
>> | flexible the
>> | clipboard is. It's one of the many features of Linux that I've come to
>> | depend upon greatly. Without it, life could go on, but it would be
>> | much,
>> | much more difficult. So I'm going to give you a brief introduction to
>> | it, and then allow you to do a little exploring on your own, because
>> | exploring and learning are half the fun of using Linux.
>> |
>> | The first thing to know is that the Xwindows clipboard is what is
>> | commonly known as a "two level" or "two layer" clipboard.
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>> http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=457
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>> Microsoft hasn't 'innovated' this yet. It relies on others.
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> Thanks for that.
> This second clipboard is a very neat idea and already I can't do without it!
> I wish I had known this a while back.
I use it all the time to hold multiple selections and travel less with the
mouse pointer. For more than two, Klipper is good too.
- --
"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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