aaron@...749... wrote:
bulia byak wrote:
Note that text is often grouped in the tutorials. So if you select a group, this does not work of course. You need to Ctrl+click so that statusbar says "Text" and then copying will work.
And so it does. The problem here is that there is something fundamental that I don't understand about using the clipboard on Linux. When I used paste in the xterm's edit menu it worked fine.
Well, it's not just Linux giving you the problems. Inkscape itself has many issues with the clipboard. This is especially so with text, as much new functionality has been added in the past several months. One problem is that to change things will take a bit of a new direction for how they are implemented internally.
The good news is that once this is done, all sorts of things will work nicer. I've finished most of my research on this (drag-and-drop uses the clipboard mechanism so they're both going to benefit from the same work), and I'm keeping in touch with Richard Hughes on this also.
I've started a wiki page to collect some info and discussion on this: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ClipboardBehavior
Jump in there and contribute. We'll probably be able to get a start on some fixing this week.