At Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:34:06 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > What is the package that allows copy and paste between windows? > I think I need to yum reinstall it. > after the 5.6 update I get the copy button when I right click - (for > example in thunderbird) > put when I then goto a console window and try to right click and paste > the paste is grey-ed or ghosted. > > Is there a package that controls the clip board or something? No there is not. The clip board is part of X11 itself -- if X11 is installed (if X11 is not installed, then you can't run the graphical user interface or any GUI applications like thunderbird or firefox) then the copy and paste logic is installed (or at least the low-level part of it, eg the clip board -- each application implements the higher level part, including the right-click menus. Not all applications talk to all other applications (for a whole pile of reasons). It has to do with the type of 'data' being copied and pasted. Not all applications can copy or paste all types of data. Yes, you can copy and paste stuff other than plain text and not all copying and pasting is with plain text (almost all applications can copy and paste plain text). If you are trying to copy HTML text from thunderbird to a "console window" (I think you mean a GNome terminal), this is not going to work. And you certainally can't copy an image from thunderbird to a GNome terminal. > Thanks > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments