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Back in ye olden days, as I recall, text had to be selected by the mouse using the left button along with mouse movement for the text to be copied to the X buffer--selecting text with the keyboard did not copy it to the X buffer although the toolkit's provided buffer could be copied into with an accelerator key/menu selection. Then clearing the text by deleting it and then clicking elsewhere in the app and finally middle-clicking pasted the text. The buffer would retain that text until a new selection was made. At least that's how I recall it used to be done.
<rant> The newer desktops and GUI toolkits seem to have mucked with this enough that it seems as though I don't know what will remain in the X buffer and what will be in a toolkit's copy buffer. Therefore apps like XFCE's Clipman and KDE's clipboard manager are essential, especially with Firefox's address bar. As I see it, this whole paste buffer issue has become a bit of a roullette wheel over the past several years and is not just limited to Geany. While I happily left the look of Motif apps behind, I don't recall these sorts of text buffer issues with them. I will say this, getting used to the availability of the X buffer over the years, I find it a real limitation when it is not available on other platforms, i.e. MS Windows. </rant>
I think you are right, the unix system has been screwed up by trying to emulate the windows system on top of it and no-one is sure what anything is supposed to do, and no-one is sure what the "correct" behavior is (except its whatever I say :) or whatever todays GTK nerd thinks who wasn't born when Unix worked right. </rant2>
Cheers Lex
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