Bug#547573: [wxmaxima] cut and paste doesn't work

[Frank S. Thomas]

Hi,

On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:40:10 Mate Miklos wrote:
> On 2009 September 25 Freitag, Frank S. Thomas wrote:

> > Copy and paste works here as expected.

> now that I had some time to experiment with wxmaxima, I found the
> 'configure/copy to clipboard on select' option, and it changes the
> situation a bit (why is this off by default???).
> 
> Now wxmaxima puts the selection into the clipboard buffer, and middle click
> inserts the clipboard buffer. This is not how other applications work,
> though, they use the primary buffer for select-insert, and use the
> clipboard buffer for the ^C-^V clipboard.

I think that this is a good answer why the "copy to clipboard on select" 
option is off by default. That is just not how other applications use the X 
buffers.

With this option off, my observation is that wxMaxima does not put selections 
into the PRIMARY buffer (like all other applications do) but CTRL-C puts 
selections into the CLIPBOARD buffer (like all other applications). But this 
is still different from your observation that CTRL-C doesn't do anything at 
all.

I'll ask upstream about this.

Cheers
Frank