[WBEL-users] Most annoying problem ever!

[Ray]

On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 13:29, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 12:56:46PM -0700, Ray wrote:
> > I can't Cut, Copy or Paste!  They are greyed out.  I'm trying to
> > post a message in a forum and I need to copy the error message I'm
> > getting (very long) and also some other info.  I can right click
> > and 'Copy' the message but it won't 'Paste' into the message txt
> > box on the web page, it's greyed out.  'Klipper' is active and
> > says the info is in the clipboard.  I can do this locally on my
> > machine, but not an web forums.  This is so annoying that if I
> > can't find a fix I will change distro's.  Just think about it, if
> > all of a sudden you couldnm't Copy, Cut and then Paste, you would
> > have to write out everything.  Please help, I'm about to shoot my
> > PC. 
> 
> Lets start with the obvious:
> 
> What application are you copying from?
> 
> What application are you copying to? (Which web broswer is it
> essentially).
> 
> How are you cutting and pasting?  How much text (write it to a text
> file and run ls -l to see how large it is).  In my experience you
> can't cut and paste more then about 4K in the X cut/paste buffer.
> 
> Can you cut text from a different application to the same broswer?
> Like say the text of this e-mail using Evolution (from the mail
> headers that appears to be your MUA).
> 
> It sounds like you can paste this text to a different application,
> just not your browser.  This concept of "locally" vs "Web Forums" is
> a mental misconception, the Web Broswer is running (at the very
> least displaying) locally on your desktop, it's just like any other
> application, it just happens to use HTTP to display text from
> someplace else.
> 
> I disable 'Klipper' as I find it's behaviour highly irritating.  I
> cut and paste all the time from console terminals to Mozilla.
> You're going to have to be fairly specific not "I can't Cut, Copy or
> Paste" with no context at all.
> 
> I copy text from a text console by highlighting in Konsole, then
> click into the field in Mozilla to give the field focus, and then
> middle click (the scroll wheel on my Microsoft Mouse).  I do it
> constantly.
> 
> Mozilla however can have two different paste buffers in my
> experience.  So I can't paste using "Ctl-V" the stuff I highlight
> with my mouse.  However, if I highlight something with my mouse in
> Mozilla, it is in the X paste buffer so you can copy things to a
> console the way you are used.  If I try and cut and paste your
> e-mail by highlighting the text and paste it into Mozilla into a
> text field (google.com), I see that paste is greyed out.  However,
> just middle clicking will paste.
> 
> Can you paste the error into an e-mail and send it to the me?  I
> don't want to troubleshoot the other problem unless you want help
> with it, but at least then I could see the text to see if there was
> anything that was a problem in there (it's doubtful but you never
> know).
> 
> I've had several times where Mozilla doesn't play nicely with the
> standard X cut/paste buffer.  However, it's generally just a matter
> of realizing that Mozilla has it's own Cut/Paste and X has it's own
> cut and paste and how you trigger them is different.
> 
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 		Kirby
> 

Copying from a terminal (bash shell) and trying to paste to Mozilla
This works for all other apps including other web browser's (Opera)
Only seems to be a problem with Mozilla, I have the free version of
Opera, it flashes ads across the top, which I hate so I don't use it.
Can paste to email as well example:
[root@darkstar root]# yum install mplayerplug-in

Unable to find pid
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
Server: Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3.0/en/i386/dag/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3.0/en/i386/dag/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Maybe I should try Firefox?
Any suggestions?