GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 639940
Copy and Paste using mouse middle button.
Last modified: 2011-01-25 20:55:16 UTC
Fix the Linux copy and paste, by select and middle mouse button click, so that it works within gnote. Currently one can only copy and paste using this method from outside of Gnote, but not lines within Gnote. Comment: In my view, any note taker like Gnote should be designed to be quick and dirty. No or few learning curves. Most people who use the Linux version of Gnote are used to the select and paste (middle mouse button click). It is annoying and time wasting to have to use the Windows Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v while working within Gnote. Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v may be intuitive for M$ users, but the intuitive method for Linux users is to mouse select and paste,
Please, provide additional information, as this seems to work for me. I've tried performing such copy&paste in such ways: * Select in Firefox, paste to Gnote * Select in Gnote, paste to Firefox * Select in note, paste in different place of the same note * Select in one note, paste in other In all cases everything works for me as expected. I'm running Fedora 14, Gnote version from git master with applied three patches from bugzilla (currently testing those). Unless patches from Bug 588098, do some surprising trick (I hardly think it is so), I have no idea, why it doesn't work for you. Can you provide some additional information, such as your distribution, version. Also note, that middle click pastes the currently selected text. If you select some text in note, then click in other part of same note (place cursor in different part of note), then selection is lost and middle click won't paste anything. If I select some text and then middle click in other place of note immediately, the selection is pasted there for me.
Just tried. All conditions work for me except the third. Whether I click on a placement location first and then select and middle button click, or, select then click on the spot where I want the selection inserted, no pasting takes place. I am using Fedora 14, but have had this problem for F12 (IIRC) & F13.
Just checked in live version of Fedora 14 in a virtual machine. Works for me. Closing this, because I can't reproduce it.