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I found another annoying little thing with the eeePC.

There are two parallel universes for cut and paste. The one that uses the Gnome clipboard. And the one that uses the X clipboard.

So if you want to cut and paste from, say, Firefox to Thunderbird, you mark your text in Firefox, hit Ctrl-C for copy, switch to Tunderbird and hit Ctrl-V to paste. That’s using the Gnome clipboard.

But if you want to cut and paste into the uxterm, then suddenly you have to do things differently. Again, mark your text in Firefox, but don’t copy this into the Gnome clipboard, Instead just switch to the uxterm and hit Shift-Ins (middle mouse button is the alternative, but that requires to press both ends of the little click-bar at the same time… not that easy).

Awkward.

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