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From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: olwm/OpenWindows 2.0 and xterm
Message-ID: <8285@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Jun 91 10:26:18 GMT
References: <9106241055.AA17159@cas.org> <JC.91Jun24112441@raven.bu.edu>
Organization: University of Southampton, UK
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In <JC.91Jun24112441@raven.bu.edu> jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes:

>Think of exactly what you did:

>	1. You grabbed the selection by using first-click-hold-drag
>        2. You then did a first-click
>        3. Finally you did a middle-click

>Now, step 2 cleared the old buffer and since you selected nothing,
>nothing was put into the buffer.  This has nothing do with the
>window manager....it is simply logical.  Now, if you want to do
>something like that, either have xclipboard handy, or have the
>window already showing.

... or you can raise the window to the front using L5, which won't
clear the selction.

				Mark.
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